by Mark Palmer
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of 27
Wells, Somerset 27–8, 37, 83
Cathedral col. pl. 6
Wells, William 116
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire 277
Wessex Hotel, Street 329
‘Wessex Shoes’ 136, 172, 176, 216
West Country 206, 209
Graves opens factories in 168
and closure of Clarks’ factories in 4, 264
Avalon Industries 295
West Ham United 278
West Indies 187, 203
Western Gazette 53, 87
Western Temperance League 88, 120, 130, 154
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 171, 248, 265, 297, 307, 343
Westropp, Edward 198
Westway Distribution Centre, Street 3–4, 347–8, 348, 354
‘white global format’ 358
White, Joseph 28
White, Josiah 28
White Rose 265
Whiteheads of Weymouth 155
Whiteladies Road, Bristol 141
Whitenights, Street 149, 286
Whitenights group 286–7
‘Summary on position of shareholders and on manufacturing and trading policies in the UK’ 286
Whiting, Richard, Abbot of Glastonbury 8
Whitman, Massachusetts 245
Whitnell, Esau 16, 19
Wicked Lady, The (film) 181
Wiener, Oskar 98
Wilde, Oscar: The Ballad of Reading Gaol 321
Willets, John 244
William III, King 23
Williams, Robbie 187
Wilmington, Delaware 103
Wilmington Society of Fine Arts 105
Wilmot, Roy 211
Wilson, A. N.: The Victorians 34
Wilson, Harold 225, 242–3, 246
Wiltshire 31
Winkel, Mabel 160
winter boots 344–5
‘winter of discontent’ (1978) 243
Wire magazine 290
Wolverine 226, 230
Woman’s Hour (radio programme) 125
women
binders 30
in the machine room 49, 116
leisure 102, 136–7
suffrage 105, 117, 119, 123, 137
Alice Clark’s book 125–6
empowerment in developing world 353
Women’s Court shoes 174
Ladies’ Best French Morocco shoes 41
Woods, Hugh 221
Woods, Tom 259
woolstapling 13, 27
Worcester 85
workforce 129
size of Clarks’ workforce 28–9, 169, 198, 203, 229, 237, 352
division of labour 30
working hours 37, 68, 84, 138, 169, 193, 201, 226, 338
and technology 48, 49
staff laid off (1858) 56
wages 56–7, 84, 85, 92, 126, 138, 139, 191, 192, 201, 299, 334
Street’s insufficient labour force 84
housing 3, 90, 209, 354
work-sharing 121
pension scheme 126, 192, 322, 325
and patriarchal, paternal tradition 134
overtime 147
deaths in Second World War 156
achieving speed of output required 169
training and employee ideas at Mayflower 172
grades of employee 191–2
redundancies 226, 242, 265, 307, 340
piecework 231, 299
and closure of Silflex 264
Speak Up service 353
shop assistants 358–9
‘Leap Training’ 358–9
see also outworkers; strikes
World Cup (1966) 225
World Trade Center, New York, terrorist attacks (September 11, 2001) 344
Wyles 266
Yellow Door 5, 356
Yeovil, Somerset 171, 179, 209, 231, 242, 265
York 89
York, Peter see Wallis, Peter
Young, Terence 216–17
youth market 213, 216, 218–19, 235, 271
Zambia 232
Zoccola, Alex 117
Zurich 230