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London, 1900), information which permits us to 

 get a general idea about the distribution of 

 working men in factories of different sizes, and 

 the extension that the petty trades have retained 

 in this country up till now.* One may see it 

 already from the following little table for the 

 year 1897, which I take from the just-mentioned 

 Report, These figures are not yet complete, 

 especially as regards the workshops, but they 

 contain already the greater part of the English 

 industries. 



Let me remark that the Factory Inspectors 

 consider as a workshop every industrial establish- 

 ment which has no mechanical motive power, 

 and as a factory every establishment provided 

 with steam, gas, water, or electric power. 



These figures, however, are not complete, 

 because only those workshops are included where 



* For more details about this subject, see an article of mine 

 in the Nineteenth Century, August, 1900. 



