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small industries are almost exclusively limited to those 

 home industries which are usually described as the 

 old ones ; while the increases belong to the home 

 industries of modern origin." The statistical data 

 thus confirm that " at the present time a sort of 

 rejuvenation is going on in the home industries ; in- 

 stead of those of them which are dying out, new ones, 

 almost equal in numbers, are growing up " (p. 242). 

 Prof. Sombart points out that the same is going on in 

 Switzerland, and refers to some new works on this 

 subject.* 



Dr. J. Grunzel comes to a similar conclusion : " Life 

 experience shows that the home industries are not a 

 form of industrial organisation which has had its 

 time," he writes in his afore-mentioned work. "On 

 the contrary, it proves to be possessed of a great life 

 force in certain branches. It is spread in all branches 

 in which handwork offers advantages above the 

 work of the machine " (p. 46). It is also retained 

 wherever the value of labour exceeds very much the 

 value of the raw produce ; and finally, in all the 

 branches devoted to articles which are rapidly changing 

 with the seasons or the vagaries of fashion. And 

 he shows (pp. 46 and 149) how the home industries have 

 been increasing in Germany from 1882 to 1895, and 

 how they are widely spread in Austria, France, Switzer- 

 land, Italy, Belgium, and England. 



The conclusions of R. van der Borght are quite 

 similar. 



" It is true," Dr. van der Borght says, " that the 



* Die Hausinduatrie in der Schweiz : Auszug aua der Ergeb- 

 nissen der Eidgenossiachen BetriebazoJdung von Aiig. 9, 1905 ; 

 E. Ryser, L'indiistrie horlogere, Zurich, 1909 ; J. Beck, Die 

 Schweizerische Hausindustrie, ihre soziale und wirthschaftliche 

 Lage, Griitliverein, 1909. 



