File contains:
1) Report on the conditions of home workers, with particular reference to Glasgow and Sheffield and the possibility of home work being brought under the Factory acts, written by Nora Vynne, Secretary of the Freedom of Labour Defence Society and of the Home Workers’ League [no date - circa 1900?];
2) Letter from W Leavis to Helen Blackburn, 13 November 1901, regretting that the FLDS is not better supported than it is;
3) FLDS Committee letter to the Secretary of State for the Home Department concerning special exemptions relating to women employees in the fish curing and jam making trades and requesting similar exemptions for the bleaching trade [no date];
4) Draft letter from Edith Lawson, Secretary to the Home Workers’ League, to the editor of the Morning Post on the Home Work Regulation Bill [no date];
5) Letter from Edith Bright to Helen Blackburn, 13 May [no year] together with a report entitled ‘Women and Industry in England’ by Mrs A H Bright [no date];
6) 8 page typescript report (no author, no date) commenting on the Factory Acts of 1874-95 and their effects on women workers, quoting speeches from various meetings 1875-98 [circa 1899].