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people belonging to this category, as against 243,200 

 persons employed in all the factories, large and small, 

 of the same branches. A few years later, Schuler, 

 in Zeitung fur Schweizerische Statistic, 1904 (reprinted 

 since as a volume), came to the figure of 131,299 per- 

 sons employed in the domestic industries ; and yet 

 this figure, although it is much nearer to reality than 

 the former, is still below the real numbers. Finally, an 

 official census of the industries, made in 1905, gave the 

 figure of 92,162 persons employed in the domestic 

 industries in 70,873 establishments, in the following 

 branches textiles, watches and jewellery, straw-plait- 

 ing, clothing and dress, wood-carving, tobacco. They 

 thus represent more than one-fourth (28*5 per cent.) 

 of the 317,027 operatives employed in Switzerland in 

 these same branches, and 15 - 7 per cent, of all the 

 industrial operatives, who numbered 585,574 in 1905. 



Out of the just-mentioned 92,162 workpeople, regis- 

 tered as belonging to the domestic trades, nearly 

 three-quarters (66,061 in 49,168 establishments) belong 

 to the textile industry, chiefly knitting and the silks ; 

 then comes the watch-trade (12,871 persons in 9,186 

 establishments), straw-plaiting, and dress. How- 

 ever, these figures are still incomplete. Not only 

 several smaller branches of the domestic trades were 

 omitted in the census, but also the children under 

 fourteen years of age employed in the domestic trades, 

 whose numbers are estimated at 32,300, were not 

 counted. Besides, the census having been made in the 

 summer, during the " strangers' season," a considerable 

 number of persons employed in a variety of domestic 

 trades during the winter did not appear in the census. 



It must also be noted that the Swiss census includes 

 under the name of Heimarbeit (domestic trades) only 

 those " dependencies of the industrial employers " which 



