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(1902) [MARC] Author: Niels Christian Frederiksen
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departments, but schools for men lower down in the
industrial scale. Socialistic movements are not
unknown, but do not exercise any great influence; and
large strikes are not numerous.

The Finlanders take a great interest in home
occupations, and schools have been established everywhere
to teach such employments, in which much zeal and
skill is often developed. The State frequently,
contributes to them, giving for instance 300,000 marks
in 1883. The Societies of Rural Economy and others
have also contributed to these schools, which teach
weaving and the manufacture of common implements.
Many articles are manufactured all over the country,
and certain parishes frequently have their specialities;
as, for instance, the rocking-chairs, spinning-wheels,
and thrashing-machines which are made in certain
localities of Ostrobothnia and Tavastehus, and the
simple waggons which are made in the province of
Viborg and frequently sold in St. Petersburg. This
domestic industry must not be confused with the
home work which is carried on in large parts of
Russia, which constitutes the whole livelihood of the
people there, and does not therefore answer to the
requirements of modern civilisation, inasmuch as it
necessarily creates poverty. In Finland as a rule
these home occupations are not carried on for the
supply of family needs; but even here the form of
work is not very profitable in these days of cheap
factory production. We have noticed, for instance,
weaving-schools teaching hand-work such as is done
in the factories by machines, a decidedly unproductive
employment. Much of this household industry is also
very antiquated; and it is a poor argument in favour
of it that the people have nothing better with which
to employ their time.

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