270 SMALL INDUSTRIES AND 



And, finally, we find a large domain occupied 

 by saddlery, brush-making, the making of sails, 

 basket-making, and the fabrication of a thou- 

 sand little things in leather, paper, wood, metal, 

 and so on, This class is certainly not insignifi- 

 cant, as it contains more than 4,300 employers 

 and nearly 130,000 workpeople, employed in 

 a mass of very small factories by the side of a 

 few very great ones, the average being only 

 from twenty-five to thirty-five persons per 

 factory. 



In short, in the different non-textile in- 

 dustries, the inspectors have tabulated 32,04-% 

 factories employing, each of them, less than ten 

 workpeople. 



All taken, we find 270,000 workpeople em- 

 ployed in small factories having less than fifty 

 and even twenty workers each, the result being 

 that the very great industry (the factories 

 employing more than 1,000 workpeople per 

 factory) and the very small one (less than ten 

 workers) employ nearly the same number 

 of operatives. 



The important part played by the small 

 industry in this country fully appears from 

 this rapid sketch. And I have not yet 

 spoken of the workshops. The Factory In- 

 spectors mentioned, as we saw, in their first 



