CHAPTER VII. 



SMALL INDUSTRIES AND INDUSTRIAL VILLAGES 

 (continued). 



Petty trades in Germany : Discussions upon the subject and conclusions 

 arrived at Petty trades in Russia Conclusions. 



Petty Trades in Germany. 



THE various industries which still have retained in 

 Germany the characters of petty and domestic trades 

 have been the subject of many exhaustive explorations, 

 especially by A. M. Thun, and Prof. Issaieff, on behalf 

 of the Russian Petty Trades Commission, Emanuel Hans 

 Sax, Paul Voigt, and very many others. By this time 

 the subject has a bulky literature, and such impressive 

 and suggestive pictures have been drawn from life for 

 different regions and trades that I felt tempted to sum 

 up these life-true descriptions. However, as in such a 

 summary I should have to repeat much of what has 

 already been said and illustrated in the preceding chap- 

 ter, it will probably more interest the general reader to 

 know something about the conclusions which can be 

 drawn from the works of the German investigators.* 



Unhappily, the discussion upon this important sub- 

 ject has often taken in Germany a passionate and even 

 a personally aggressive character. f On the one hand 



* The remarks of Prof. Issaieff a thorough investigator of petty trades 

 in Russia, Germany and France will be for me a very valuable guide in 

 the following. See Works of the Commission for the Study of Petty 

 Trades in Russia (Russian), St. Petersburg, 1879-87, vol. i. 



f See K. Buecher's Preface to the Untersuchungen uber die Lage des 

 Handwerks in Deutschland, vol. iv. 



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