Note 22 — Chapter III · First Months of the World War— Labor’s Attitude toward the War— Unemployment among Women Workers

Comprehensive reports on the state of employment in September and October, 1914, and in February, 1915, have been issued by the Board of Trade [Cds. 7703, 7755, and 7850]. The “Central Committee on Women’s Employment” has issued an interim report [Cd. 7748]. Miss Edith Abbott gives an excellent review of the extent of unemployment and the work of the Central Committee in the Journal of Political Economy for July, 1917. (“The War and Women’s Work in England,” pp. 641-678.)