Thompson, Mr., superiority of English
labor, 69.
Thompson, J., Perronet, food habits
of the Irish and the English, 118n.
Thornton, Over-Population, 25n.;

On Labor, 50n, 279n, 293-5.
Tory Party, of England, influence in
favor of early marriages, 356n.
Trades Unions, not to be condemned
simply because they are restrictive,
172; their economical nature, 396;
as friendly societies, 399.
fruck-payments make it difficult to
compute real wages, 20; truck de-
fined and described, 321-7; English
legislation respecting, 327; reasons
for truck, 328, 329; profits of, 330,
331; abuses of, 331, 332; economical
nature of, 335-344; controlled by
public opinion, 367n.

Tuffnell, Carleton, inefficient labor not
wanted at any price, 49n.
Turkey, holidays in, 29; good work
not appreciated, 60n.; marriage
customs, 116.

United States, difficulty of computing
real wages, 19; payment of agricul-
tural wages, 20; agricultural wages
prior to 1850, paid largely in kind,
21; duration of the laboring power,
34, 35; statistics of height and
weight, 51; food habits of the peo-
ple, 123, 121; ratio of breadwinners
to dependents, 126n.; wages paid
directly out of the product of labor,
135, 16; prevalence of the wage
fund doctrine explained, 140-42; in-
crease in the number of laborers
bringing increase of wages, 149;
Chinese in the United States, 176;
mobility of the laboring population,
180, 181; foreigners in the United
States, 181, 182; tenure of the land,
227; cooperation, 225; great ex-
tension of retail trading 1860-70,
313; savings banks statistics, 351,
352; early marriages, 355; great
irregularity in the distribution of
female industries, 375; women in
agriculture, 380n.; women in manu-
factures, 382, 353.

Vauban, Marshal, loss of time by holi-
days, 29.

Vethake, H., Political Economy, 141.
Victoria, industrial legislation of her
reign, 360.

Ville me, M., statistics of height and
weight, 50, 51; excessive labor of
children, 167, 168.

Wages affected by the exchange of
distributed for undistributed wealth,
6, 260; made by some economists to

include the remuneration of five
classes of laborers, 10; nomi-
nal distinguished from real wages,
12 (chap. ii.); distinguished from
cost of labor, 40; measured by the
product of industry, chap. viii. ;
affected by causes which influence
the efficiency of labor, 145; by in-
ventions and improvements, 146,
147; large and sudden rise of, not
promotive of frugality, 235; lawe
fixing wages, 304-6; wages of wo-
men, 372-384.
Wages-class, chap. xii.; has either
the wages or the employing class an
advantage over the other? chap.
xvi.; how the wages class may be
put at disadvantage in competition
with employers, chap. xvii.; what
may help them in competition, chap.
xviii. ; may any advantage be
given them through strikes or trades
unions? chap. xix.

Wage-laborers less industrious than
those working on their own account,
75-7; less frugal, 271, 272.
Wage-fund, the doctrine of, chap.
ix.; stated, 138-40; its prevalence
accounted for, 143; refuted, 144-50;
made use of by some economists to
settle the question of strikes, 385,
386.

Wales, payment of agricultural wages,

20n.

Welsh in the United States, 182.
Walker Amasa, Science of Wealth,
141n., 231n.

Walsham, Mr., employment of chil-
dren in factorics in the Nether-
lands, 362.

Ward, J., Workmen and Wages,
13n., 389n., 395, 396, 402.

Waste, an element in all work, 48, 66;
encouraged by excessive profits, 257,
258.

Watts, John, loss of time by strikes,
30.

Water, impurity of, affecting the
efficiency of labor, 60, 65.

Wayland Francis, Political Economy,
1412.

Wells, David A., Reports on U. S.
Revenue, 4in., 45n."
Wheeler, Mr., Cotton Cultivation,
42n., 67.

Whewell, Dr., the economic man, 175.
White, J. E, steel dust in needle fac-

tories, 32; excessive labor of chil-
dren in factories, 52, 53, 201, 202.
Whitworth, Sir Jos., false economy of
employing cheap labor, 41n.; of
underfeeding, 55.; discipline an
element of efficiency, 9.
William IV., industrial legislation of
his reign, 322, 527, 328, 560,

Winthrop, Governor, History of New
England, 240, 241, 342.
Wolowski, M., restrictions on the
labor of children, 358n.
Women, irregularity in the employ-
ment of, in agriculture, 33; work
unsuited to their sex, 52; their
wages inadequate to their service,
372, 373; have especial need to
move to the labor market, 375, 376;
but are peculiarly disabled therein,
376-8; by actual obstruction on the
part of men, 377, 378; by lack of
public sympathy and support, 379;
their need to enter the labor market