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I see myself compelled to give here only a few 

 typical illustrations, and to indicate the chief 

 lines only of the subject. 



The Small Industries in the United Kingdom. 



We have not for the United Kingdom such 

 statistical data as are obtained in France and 

 Germany by periodical censuses of all the factories 

 and workshops, and the numbers of the work- 

 people, foremen and clerks, employed on a given 

 day in each industrial and commercial establish- 

 ment. Consequently, up to the present time 

 all the statements made by economists about 

 the so-called " concentration " of the industry in 

 this country, and the consequent " unavoidable " 

 disappearance of the small industries, have been 

 based on mere impressions of the writers, not 

 on statistical data. Up till now we cannot give, 

 as it is done further in these pages for France 

 and Germany, the exact numbers of factories 

 and workshops employing, let us say, from 1,000 

 to 2,000 persons, from 500 to 1,000, from 50 to 

 500, less than 50, and so on. It is only since 

 factory inspection has been introduced by the 

 Factory Act of 1895 that we begin to find, in 

 the Reports published since 1900 by the Factory 

 Inspectors (Annual Report of the Chief Inspector 

 of Factories and Workshops for. the year 1898 : 



