256 SMALL INDUSTRIES AND 



It must also be pointed out that out of the 

 4,483,800 workpeople registered in the above- 

 mentioned tables nearly 60,000 were children 

 who were working half -days only, 401,000 were 

 girls less than eighteen years old, 463,000 were 

 boys from thirteen to eighteen who were making 

 full working days like the adults, and 1,077,115 

 were considered as women (more than eighteen 

 years old). In other words, one-fifth part of all 

 the industrial workers of this country were girls 

 and boys, and more than two-fifths (41 per cent.) 

 were either women or children. All the industrial 

 production of the United Kingdom, with its im- 

 mense exports, was thus giving work to less than 

 three million adult men 2,983,000 out of a popu- 

 lation of 42,000,000, to whom we must add 

 972,200 persons working hi the mines. As to the 

 textile industry, which supplies almost one-half 

 of the English exports, there are less than 300,000 

 adult men who find employment in it. The 

 remainder is the work of children, boys, girls, 

 and women. 



A fact which strikes us is that the 1,051,564 



returns were received from 105,000 of them. But as in 32,000 

 workshops no women or young persons (below 18) were em- 

 ployed, their returns were not published. The Report for 

 1907 gives, therefore, only 91,249 workshops in which 638,335 

 persons were employed (186,064 male and 282,324 female 

 adults, 54,605 male and 113,728 female young persons that is, 

 full-timers from 14 to 18 years old and 863 male and 751 

 female children under 14). 



