342 SMALL INDUSTRIES AND 



more than one-sixth part of the Belgian 

 industrial workers are employed in small work- 

 shops which have, on the average, less than three 

 workers each, besides the master, and that 

 four-tenths of all the work-people are em- 

 ployed in factories and workshops having on 

 the average less than thirteen work-people each.* 

 What is still more remarkable is, that the 

 number of small workshops, in which from 

 one to four aids only are employed by the 

 master, attains the considerable figure of 1,867 

 (2,293 in 1880) in the textile industries, not- 

 withstanding the high concentration of a certain 

 portion f of these industries. As to the 

 machinery works and hardware trades, the 

 small workshops in which the master works 

 with from two to four assistants or journeymen 

 are very numerous (more than 13,300), to say 

 nothing of the gun trade which is a petty trade 

 'par excellence, and the furniture trade which 



* When shall we have for the United Kingdom a census 

 as complete as \ve have it for France, Germany, and Belgium ? 

 that is, a census in which the employed and the employers will 

 be counted separately instead of throwing into one heap the 

 owner of the factory, the managers, the engineers, and the 

 workers and their distribution in factories of different sizes 

 will be given. 



f Textile Industries : Artisans working single or with the 

 aid of their families, 1,437 ; from one to four workmen, 430 

 establishments, 949 work-people ; from five to forty-nine work- 

 .people, 774 establishments, 14,051 workers ; above fifty, 

 379 establishments, 66,103 workers. 



