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industry. Thus, for the 3,274 woollen factories, 

 the average is only from twenty to fifty workers 

 per factory ; it is also from twenty-seven to 

 thirty-eight for shoddy, and thirty-seven to 

 seventy-six for the other branches. Only for 

 knitting do the averages rise to ninety-three 

 persons per factory ; but we are just going to 

 see that the small industry reappears in this 

 branch in force under the name of workshops. 



All these important branches of the British 

 textile industry, which give work to more than 

 240,000 men and women, have thus remained 

 up till now at the stage of a small and middle- 

 sized industry. 



If we take now the NON-TEXTILE industries, 

 we find, on the one side, an immense number 

 of small industries which have grown up around 

 the great ones, and owing to them ; and, on the 

 other side, a large part of the fundamental 

 industries have remained in the stage of small 

 establishments. The average for all these 

 branches, which give occupation to three- 

 fourths of all the industrial workers of the 

 United Kingdom that is, 2,755,460 workers 

 hardly attains, we saw, thirty-five persons per 

 factory the workshops being not yet included 

 in this division. However, it is especially 

 when we go into details, and analyse the 

 figures which I have calculated for each separate 



