504 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION F. 



Interim Beport of the Conference to investigate into Outlets for 

 Labour after the War. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGK 



I. Introduction 504 



II. Women's Employment during year Aug. 1914 to Aug. 1915 . . . 506 



III. The General Position 508 



IV. Possible Limitations to the Industrial Employability of Women . . 314 

 V. Wages 516 



VI. The Woman Worker after the War 518 



Statistics 520 



Table I 1 



■ i State of Employment to Feb. 1915 compared with July 1914 . 521 



„ III. Women's Employment in Principal Trades to Feb. 1915 . . 523 

 „ IV. Numbers Employed in Non-Industrial Occupations . . . 524 



Detailed Eeports on Trades. 



Distributive Trades 525 



Eaihvays 530 



Other Transport 539 



Clerical Work 540 



Engineering and the Metal Trades (including Munitions) 546 



Leather 552 



Tailoring 561 



Chemicals 565 



Cotton 565 



Wool and Worsted 568 



Hosiery 570 



Silk 570 



Food 571 



Tobacco 573 



Brush Making 573 



Printing and Bookbinding ........... 574 



Pottery 580 



Furniture 582 



I. — Introduction. 



Conference Committee. 



The Membership of the Conference on Outlets for Labour after the War was 

 as follows : Archdeacon Cunningham; Messrs. C. W. Bowerman, M.P., W. J. 

 Davis, J.P., J. St. G. Heath, J. A. Seddon, E. D. Simon; Sir H. Rider 

 Haggard, Sir C. P. Lucas, K.C.B., Sir C. W. Macara, Bart., Sir Sydney 

 Olivier, Sir E. im Thurn; Professor E. C. K. Gonner, Mr. Egbert Jackson, 

 Chairman — Professor W, R. Scott, F.B.A. Secretary — Professor A, W. 

 Kirkaldy. 



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