272 SMALL INDUSTRIES AND 



shops employing something like 60,000 work- 

 men. All that, let us remember, without 

 counting those workshops which employ no 

 women or children, and therefore are not 

 submitted to the Factory Inspectors. As to 

 the fabrication of clothing, which gives work to 

 more than 350,000 men and women, distributed 

 over nearly 45,000 workshops, let it be noted 

 that it is not small tailors that is spoken 

 of here, but that mass of workshops which 

 swarm in Whitechapel and the suburbs of all* 

 great cities, and where we find from five to 

 fifty women and men making clothing for the 

 tailor shops, big and small. In these shops 

 the measure is taken, and sometimes the 

 cutting is made ; but the clothing is sewn in 

 the small workshops, which are very often 

 somewhere in the country. Even parts of the 

 commands of linen and clothing for the army 

 find their way to workshops in country places. 

 As to the underclothing and mercery which 

 are sold in the great stores, they are fabricated 

 in small workshops, which must be counted by 

 the thousand. 



The same is true of furniture, mattresses and 

 cushions, hats, artificial flowers, umbrellas, 

 slippers, and even cheap jewelry. The great 

 shops, even the largest stores, mostly keep only 

 an assortment of samples. All is manufactured 



