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at a very low price, and day by day, in thou- 

 sands of small workshops. 



It can thus be said that iff we exclude from 

 the class of workshops' employees 100,000 or 

 even 200,000 workpeople who do not work 

 for industry properly speaking, and if we add 

 on the other side the nearly 500,000 workers 

 who have not yet been tabulated by the in- 

 spectors in 1897, we find a population of more 

 than 1,000,000 men and women who belong 

 entirely to the domain of the small industry, 

 and so must be added to those whom we 

 found working in the small factories. The 

 artisans who are working single-handed were 

 not included in this sketch. 



We thus see that even in this country, which 

 may be considered as representing the highest 

 development of the great industry, the number 

 of persons employed in the small trade con- 

 tinues to be immense. The small industries 

 are as much a distinctive feature of the British 

 industry as its few immense factories and 

 ironworks. 



Going over now to what is known about the 

 small industries of this country from direct 

 observation, we find that the suburbs of London, 

 Glasgow, and other great cities swarm with small 

 workshops, and that there are regions where the 



