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numbers of artisans working single-handed have 

 diminished in numbers in most industries ; but they 

 still represent two-fifths of all industrial establish- 

 ments, and even more than one-half in several industries. 

 At the same time, the small establishments (having 

 from one to five workers) have increased in numbers, 

 and they contain nearly one-half of all the industrial 

 establishments, and even more than that in several 

 groups." 



As for Koch's work, Die Deutsche Hausindustrie, it 

 deserves special mention for the discussion it contains 

 of the measures advocated, on the one side, for the 

 weeding out of the domestic industries, and, on the 

 other side, for improving the condition of the workers 

 and the industries themselves by the means of co-opera- 

 tion, credit, workshops' inspection, and the like. 



Y. THE DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES IN 

 SWITZERLAND. 



We have most interesting monographs dealing with 

 separate branches of the small industries of Switzerland, 

 but we have not yet such comprehensive statistical data 

 as those which have been mentioned in the text in 

 speaking of Germany and France. It was only in the 

 year 1901 that the first attempt was made to get the 

 exact numbers of workpeople employed in what the 

 Swiss statisticians describe as Hausindustrie, or " the 

 domestic industries' extension of the factory indus- 

 tries " (der hausindustrielle Anhang der Fabrikindustrie). 

 Up till then these numbers remained " an absolutely 

 unknown quantity." For many it was, therefore, a 

 revelation when a first rough estimate, made by the 

 factory inspectors, gave the figure of 52,291 work- 



