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1870 | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
1871 | |
| |
| |
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1873 | |
| |
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1878 | Increased |
| Staff of |
| Inspectors. |
| |
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| |
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1891 | Board of Trade |
| power to |
| schedule |
| dangerous |
| trades. |
| |
1892 | |
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1893 | Appointment of |
| working men and |
| women Inspectors. |
| |
1893 | Increased number of |
| Inspectors. |
| |

FOOTNOTES:

[239] The figures for the periods 1841 to 1881 are drawn from Mr.
Charles Booth's _Occupations of the People_. The figures for 1891 are
drawn from the Census Report, and arranged as nearly as possible in
accordance with Mr. Booth's classification.

[240] Here also the figures for 1891 give a result slightly divergent
from the above. While the number of women employed continues to
increase, reaching 691,441, the number of men employed are greater
than in 1881, amounting to 408,392, a large proportionate increase,
though less than that of the women.

[241] The recent statistics of tailoring and shoemaking, which are
becoming more and more machine industries, mark this movement
strongly. In the tailoring trade, while male workers increase from
107,668 in 1881 to 119,496 in 1891, female workers increase from
52,980 to 89,224. In the boot and shoe trade, while men increase from
180,884 to 202,648, women increase from 35,672 to 46,141. In
Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, where boots and shoes are a
machine-industry, 40 women are employed to 100 men, though the
proportion for the whole industry is only 23 women to 100 men.

[242] _Report to Commission of Labour on Employments of Women_, pp.
142, 146