Excerpt from Women's Industries in Liverpool: An Inquiry Into the Economic Effects of Legislation Regulating the Labour of Women The Preface which Miss harrison has asked me to contribute to her essay on the condition of women's work in Liverpool gives me the welcome opportunity of adding emphasis to two or three important points brought into prominence by her investigation. But before proceeding to these it is well to point out the circumstances under which this piece of work was undertaken. Miss harrison was appointed to the post of Jevons Scholar in University College, Liverpool, in 1902, and the enquiries on which is based the account given in this essay were carried out Degreesduring different visits to Liverpool in the Autumn of 1902 and the Spring of 1903. Her aim, as will be seen, was two fold: on the one hand, to examine the effects on the industrial position of women occasioned by the restric tions and regulations of the Factory Acts on the other hand, to give a description of the general conditions of women's work in Liverpool. In respect of the former, she was working at a problem in Liverpool which at the very same time was receiving consideration in its more general aspects by a Committee of the British Association, and her conclusions should be compared with those contained in the Reports of that Committee, published among the Proceedings of the British Associa tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.