Excerpt from Women in Trade UnionsThe following Report on Women in Trade Unions is the result of an Enquiry made by a joint-committee of the Labour Research Department and the Fabian Women's Group. The Report was unanimously adopted by the Committee, but the opinions expressed in it do not necessarily represent the views. Of the members, either individually or collectively, and only those of the writer. The thanks of the Committee are especially due to Miss Lilian Dawson, who was responsible for the main burden of Secretarial work involved by the Enquiry, and for the preparation of the clerks' section of the Report. Also to Miss Kaye and Miss Young, who undertook the preparation of the woodworking and pottery sections. They are further due to Mr. And Mrs. Sidney Webb, Mr. And Mrs. G. D. H. Cole, Miss B. L. Hutchins, Mrs. Barton, Miss Madeleine Symons and Miss Wilkinson for valuable criticism and corrections, and to Miss Mary mclaren for the revision. Of the draft. The Committee has also to express its great indebtedness to the many trade union officials, without whose generous assistance the Enquiry would have been impossible to carry out. The early reports and joum'als of the Women's Trade Union League and of some of the older trade unions form the main sources of information for the historical chapters, whilst the facts relating to taday have been. Taken from the latest trade union documents or given by officials and members in written or verbal evidence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.