r cent. per cent. per cent. per cent. per cent.

According to these figures, not only did female labor increase by 35 per
cent. during the period of 1875-1882, while male labor increased only
by 6.4 per cent., but the great increase of female labor, especially in
small industries, tells the tale that _only by dint of a strong
application of female labor, with its correspondingly low wages, can
small production keep itself afloat, for a while_.

In 1882, there were to every 1,000 persons engaged in industry 176
women; in commerce and transportation, 190; in agriculture, 312.

In 1892, the number of women, employed in the factories of Germany, were
of the following ages:

Number
Age. Employed.
12-14 3,897
14-16 68,735
16-21 223,538
Over 21 337,499
Besides (for Reuss younger line
without designation of ages) 6,197
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639,866

In the Kingdom of Saxony, notedly the most industrial portion of
Germany, the number of working-women employed in the factories was:--

Year. 16 Years and Over. 12 to 16.
1883 72,716 8,477
1892 110,555 13,333
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Increase 37,839 4,856
52 per cent. 57 per cent.

As a result of the new factory regulations, which limited the hours of
female labor, between the ages of 14 to 16, to 10 a day, and wholly
forbade factory work to children of school age, the number of
working-women between the ages of 14 to 16 sank to 6,763, and of girls
between the ages of 12 to 14, sank by 6,334. The strongest increase in
the number of working-women, as far as we are informed, took place in
the tobacco industry of Baden. According to the reports of the Baden
Factory Inspector, Dr. Woerishoffer, the number of persons engaged in
the said industry and their subdivisions by sexes; was as follows:

Total Number
Year. Employed. Males. Females.
1882 12,192 5,193 6,999
1892 24,056 7,932 16,124
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Increase