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CONTENTS.
Special articles:
Page.
Cost of living in the District of Columbia-third article, the feeding of the
family....
1-18
Trade agreements in the women's clothing industries in New York City,
by Boris Emmet, Ph. D.....
19-39
Wages in Germany, translated and summarized by Alfred Maylander..... 40-50
Labor and the war:
Labor policy of the War Department....
51-53
Adjustment of labor difficulties in Arizona copper region.
Abolition of leaving certificates in Great Britain..
53-57
57-59
The labor market and the new industrial census in Germany.
Creation of an imperial economic department in Germany.
Agricultural labor problem in Germany..
59-61
61, 62
63, 64
Provision for disabled soldiers:
Finding jobs for Great Britain's disabled soldiers, by Mrs. M. A. Gadsby..
British Labor Party and the disabled, by G. J. Wardle, M. P.....................
Price changes, wholesale and retail, in the United States..
90-93
Wholesale prices in the United States, January to September, 1917...............
94
Food control:
Rules and regulations of the Food Administrator governing licensing of
dealers in certain staple food commodities....
Minimum wage for minors in the State of Washington.....
Coal prices advanced in connection with increase in wages of miners... 110, 111
Minimum wage:
112, 113
Determination of wages by the State in Germany, Austria, and Switzer-
land......
113, 114
Employment and unemployment:
Work of the Federal, State, and municipal employment offices in the
United States, and of provincial employment offices in Canada...... 115–120
Report of employment exchanges in the United Kingdom (Great Britain
and Ireland) for four weeks ending September 7, 1917....
Employment in selected industries in October, 1917.......
121
121-126
Volume of employment in the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Ire-
land) in September, 1917......
126-130
Fluctuations in employment and unemployment in Australia.
Unemployment insurance and labor exchanges in the Netherlands...
Labor organizations:
Activities of German trade-unions....
Membership of Austrian trade-unions during the war....
Sixth congress of the Hungarian trade-unions.....
Labor organizations in Australia..........
131
132
133-140
140
140-142
142, 143
Workmen's compensation:
Tendencies in workmen's compensation in the United States, by Carl
Hookstadt......
144-148
Conflicts of jurisdiction over industrial accidents between Federal and
State authorities....
148-157
Workmen's compensation insurance in Ohio..
157-160
Report of Industrial Accident Board of Montana..
160
Industrial accidents and diseases:
Trend of accident frequency rates in the iron and steel industry during
the war period, by causes, by Lucian W. Chaney .
Accidents in the machine-building industry.
161-165
166-168
The study of occupational disease in hospitals, by David L. Edsall, M. D 169–185
An industrial clinic, by Wade Wright, M. D.
185-193
Practical points in the safe handling of trinitrotoluol, by J. W. Scheres-
chewsky, M. D.......................
195-202
Industrial health and occupational diseases in Massachusetts..
202-204
Trade disease caused by the working up of moa wood..........
204, 205
Social insurance:
Massachusetts Commission on Health Insurance..
Housing and welfare work:
Lunch rooms for employees, by Anice L. Whitney.
Sixth national housing conference..
War housing in the United States.
War housing in Great Britain, by Leifur Magnusson..
Housing in Scotland.....
Workingmen's suburb in New South Wales...
Labor laws and court decisions:
Court decisions on labor questions in the United States.....
206
207-215
215-218
218-220
220-229
229-234
234, 235
236-238
Recent labor laws of Venezuela...
238
Arbitration and conciliation:
Conciliation work of the Department of Labor, October 16 to November 15,
1917......
239-241
Strikes and lockouts:
Strikes and lockouts in the United States during September, 1917................ 242–244
Strikes and lockouts in Germany, 1916.....