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It thus exceeded the total production of the 

 great industry. As to the relative importance 

 of the two for the working classes suffice it to 

 say that even in the government of Moscow, 

 which is the chief manufacturing region of 

 Russia (its factories yield upwards of one-fifth 

 in value of the aggregate industrial production 

 of European Russia), the aggregate incomes 

 derived by the population from the domestic 

 industries are three times larger than the 

 aggregate wages earned in the factories. 



The most striking feature of the Russian 

 domestic trades is that the sudden start which 

 was made by the factories in Russia did not 

 prejudice the domestic industries. On the 

 contrary, it gave a new impulse to their ex- 

 tension ; they grew and developed precisely in 

 those regions where the factories were growing 

 up fastest. 



Another most suggestive feature is the fol- 

 lowing : although the unfertile provinces of 

 Central Russia have been from time immemorial 

 the seat of all kinds of petty trades, several 

 domestic industries of modern origin are de- 



they use to manufacture reaches 21,087,000 (the rouble at 24d.), 

 that is, an average of 25 per worker. An average of 20 for 

 the 7,500,000 persons engaged in domestic industries would 

 already give 150,000,000 for their aggregate production ; but 

 the most authoritative investigators consider that figure as 

 below the reality. 



