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do not represent separate factories placed under the 

 employer's management ; so that those workshops and 

 small factories, the produce of which is sold directly to 

 the consumers, as also the small factories directly 

 managed by small employers, are not included in this 

 category. If all that be taken into consideration, we 

 must agree with the conclusion that the "domestic 

 trades have in Switzerland a much greater extension 

 than in any other country of Europe " (save Russia), 

 which we find in an elaborate recent work, published in 

 connection with the 1910 exhibition of Swiss domestic 

 industries, and edited by Herr Jac. Lorenz (Die wirt- 

 schaftlichen und sozialen Verhaltnisse in der Schwei- 

 zerischen Heimarbeit, Zurich, 1910-1911, p. 27). 



A feature of importance which appears from this last 

 work is, that more than one-half of the workers engaged 

 in domestic trades have some other source of income 

 besides these trades. Very many of them carry on 

 agriculture, so that it has been said that in Switzerland 

 " the domestic trades' question is as much a peasant 

 question as a labour question." 



It would be impossible to sum up in this place the 

 interesting data contained in the first four fascicles 

 published by Herr Lorenz, which deal with the cotton, 

 the silk, and the linen domestic industries, their struggles 

 against the machine, their defeats in some branches 

 and their holding the ground in other branches, and so 

 on. I must therefore refer the reader to this very 

 instructive publication. 



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