| | | | 1870 | | | | | | | | | | 1871 | | | | | | | | 1873 | | | | | | 1878 | Increased | | Staff of | | Inspectors. | | | | | | | | | 1891 | Board of Trade | | power to | | schedule | | dangerous | | trades. | | | 1892 | | | | | | | | 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. [243] Quoted Wells, _Contemporary Review_, 1887, p. 392. [244] Marsden, _Cotton Spinning_, p. 296, etc. S. Andrew, _Fifty Years Cotton Trade_, p. 7. [245] This fourfold classification--(1) manual, (2) routine-mental, (3) artistic, (4) intellectual--is a serviceable suggestion of Mr. Sidney Webb in his paper upon woman's wages (_Economic Journal_, vol. i., 1881). [246] _Report to Commission of Labour on Employment of Women_, p. 141. [247] Webb, _Economic Journal_, vol. i. p. 658. [248] I am informed, however, in Lancashire, that the strongest and ablest male workers will not undertake weaving, finding it tedious and monotonous.