The great state : essays in construction / by H.G. Wells [and others].

Date:
1912
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Credit: The great state : essays in construction / by H.G. Wells [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in bakeries, the brewing of beer, the distilling of spirits, and the public works of construction carried out by State departments and local authorities, and it included the value of repairs. It also covered all mining and quarrying. The only exception ap- pears to be the manufacturing of food by restaurants. Each employer returned the number of salaried persons and wage-earners employed by him, with details as to the proportions of men, women, boys, and girls composing each group. To be precise, those aged eighteen years and over were distin- guished from those under eighteen, for each sex. The inquiry showed that about 6,900,000 persons were engaged in producing in 1907, and that of these 6,400,000 were wage-earners, officered by some 500,000 salaried persons. This is sufficiently re- markable, but the more closely the figures are examined the more remarkable they appear. Fur- ther analysis shows that the 6,400,000 wage-earners were thus made up: UnITED KinGDOM INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT IN 1907 Males aged 18 years and over.. 4,250,000 WAGs 8 a a a oe EB BOO,OGO Males and Females under 18.... 950,000 SO ODR Ee Sone ee ee: 6,400,000 Thus, in the year 1907—and the facts in 1912 can exhibit little variation—there were only 4,250,000