small establishments. The average for all these branches, which give occupation to three-fourths of all the industrial workers of the United Kingdom — that is, 2,755,460 workers — hardly attains, we saw, thirty-five persons per factory — the workshops being not yet included in this division. However, it is especially when we go into details, and analyse the figures which I have calculated for each separate branch, that we fully realise the importance of the petty trades in England. This is what we are going to do, mentioning first what belongs here to the great industry, and studying next the small one.
Following the classification adopted by the Factory Inspectors, we see first that the gasworks belong to the domain of the fairly big establishments (seventy-eight people on the average). The india-rubber factories belong to the same category (125 workers on the average): and amidst the 456 glass-works of the United Kingdom there must be some big ones, as the average is eighty-seven workpeople.
Next come mining and metallurgy, which are carried on,