246 SMALL INDUSTRIES AND 



that organisation of the sale of the pro- 

 duce. 



Again, when the industrial, or rather technical 

 aspects of the small industries are considered, 

 the same variety of types is soon discovered. 

 Here also there are two great branches : those 

 trades, on the one side, which are purely domestic 

 that is, those which are carried on in the house 

 of the worker, with the aid of his family, or of 

 a couple of wage-workers ; and those which are 

 carried on in separate workshops all the just- 

 mentioned varieties, as regards connection with 

 land and the divers modes of disposing of the 

 produce, being met with in both these branches. 

 All possible trades weaving, workers in wood, 

 in metals, in bone, in india-rubber, and so on 

 may be found under the category of purely 

 domestic trades, with all possible gradations 

 between the purely domestic form of production 

 and the workshop and the factory. 



Thus, by the side of the trades which are 

 carried on entirely at home by one or more 

 members of the family, there are the trades in 

 which the master keeps a small workshop at- 

 tached to his house and works in it with his 

 family, or with a few " assistants" that is, wage- 

 workers. Or else the artisan has a separate 

 workshop, supplied with wheel-power, as is the 

 case with the Sheffield cutlers. Or several 



