Elberfeld Poor Law System: Reports on the Elberfeld Poor Law System and German Workmen?s Colonies; Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, March 1888 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Elberfeld is a thriving manufacturing town in the Rhine Province of Prussia. The industries are very varied, and include manufactories of Silk and cotton, dye works, and button factories. During the last twenty years these industries have been greatly developed, and the population of the town has grown from in 1875 to in 1885. Barmen, which adjoins Elberfeld, and is also a modern manufacturing town, has inhabitants.
In the character of its industries and in the rapid growth of its population, Elberfeld and Barmen are more like the district which surrounds Bradford than any other part of England. The habits of the people are not unlike, but Elberfeld has escaped the severity of the trade depression which has borne so heavily on the English industries. The hours Of work are long, and in some factories the weavers who are on piecework are employed 71 hours a week, by the choice of the men, who prefer the certainty of regular work to shorter hours. Short time has been almost unknown, and very few looms, except for fancy goods, have been standing at any time during the last 10 years. Many hand looms are still worked in the district. At present the labouring classes are enjoying a time of great prosperity, although complaints that the profits Of capital are diminishing are perhaps as widespread as they are in this country.
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Elberfeld is a thriving manufacturing town in the Rhine Province of Prussia. The industries are very varied, and include manufactories of Silk and cotton, dye works, and button factories. During the last twenty years these industries have been greatly developed, and the population of the town has grown from in 1875 to in 1885. Barmen, which adjoins Elberfeld, and is also a modern manufacturing town, has inhabitants.
In the character of its industries and in the rapid growth of its population, Elberfeld and Barmen are more like the district which surrounds Bradford than any other part of England. The habits of the people are not unlike, but Elberfeld has escaped the severity of the trade depression which has borne so heavily on the English industries. The hours Of work are long, and in some factories the weavers who are on piecework are employed 71 hours a week, by the choice of the men, who prefer the certainty of regular work to shorter hours. Short time has been almost unknown, and very few looms, except for fancy goods, have been standing at any time during the last 10 years. Many hand looms are still worked in the district. At present the labouring classes are enjoying a time of great prosperity, although complaints that the profits Of capital are diminishing are perhaps as widespread as they are in this country.
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