9,400,000; Austria-Hungary, 8,200,000; Italy, 5,700,000; Belgium, 930,000; U.S.A., 8,000,000; England and Wales, 6,000,000. In Russia, the number of women workers continually increased. In 1900, the women workers numbered 25 per cent. of all factory workers; in 1908, they numbered 31 per cent.; in 1912, 45 per cent. In some branches of production, the women outnumbered the men. For example, in the textile industry, out of 870,000 workers in the year 1922, 458,000 were women — more than half, over 52 per cent. During the war, the number of women workers increased enormously.
As regards child labour, this flourishes in many places, despite prohibitions. In countries of advanced capitalist development, as for instance in the U.S.A., child labour is met with at every turn.
This leads to the break-up of the working-class family. If the mothers, and very often the children as well, go to the factory, what becomes of family life?
When a woman enters the factory, when she becomes a wage worker, she is from time to time exposed, just like a man, to all