268 SMALL INDUSTRIES AND 



of factories employing more than 1,000 work- 

 people each, he finds only sixty-five in the 

 textile industries (102,600 workpeople) and only 

 128 (355,208 workpeople) in all non-textile 

 industries. 



In this brief enumeration we have gone over 

 all that belongs to the great industry. The 

 remainder belongs almost entirely to the domain 

 of the small, and often the very small in- 

 dustry. Such are all the factories for wood- 

 work, which have on the average only fifteen 

 men per establishment, but represent a con- 

 tingent of more than 100,000 workmen and more 

 than 6,000 employers. The tanneries, the manu- 

 facture of all sorts of little things in ivory and 

 bone, and even the brick-works and the pot- 

 teries, representing a total of 260,000 work- 

 people and 11,200 employers, belong, with a 

 very few exceptions, to the small industry. 



Then we have the factories dealing with 

 the burnishing and enamelling of metals, which 

 also belong chiefly to the small industry the 

 average being only twenty-eight workpeople 

 per factory. But what is especially striking is 

 the development of the small and very small 

 industry hi the fabrication of agricultural 

 machinery (thirty-two workers per factory), of 

 all sorts of tools (twenty-two on the average), 

 needles and phis (forty-three), ironmongery, 



