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textile and clothing industry.
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In 1900, the number of the hands employed in the tobacco factories was
4,499, of whom 2,752 were women. An exhaustive enquiry has been made into
the conditions under which these hands work, this branch being the second on the
list drawn up by the official Labour Statistics of Sweden. This report on the
Tobacco industry was published in 1899.
Other Manufactures.
With regard to other industries concerned in the production of
articles of food for sustenance or enjoyment, the following details may be
given, including the number of employees and the total value of the
production for the year 1900.
Factories. Workmen. Value of prodnction.
Bakeries............................................. ...... 33 717 5,597,000 kronor.
Factories for porkbutchers’ commodities.. ...... 40 304 4,157,000 .
Pig slaughter-houses............................. ...... 9 109 2,518,000 >
Fish-pickling businesses...................... ...... 47 67b 1,939,000 >
Biscoii factories .................................. ...... 3 240 765,000 »
Coffee roasteries................................... ...... 4 20 656,000 »
Preserve-factories................................ ...... 8 139 556,000 >
In reference to these figures, it should not be forgotten that only those
establishments are here included which can be regarded as carrying on their
business on wholesale lines. The greater part of the production in these branches is of
course effected on a smaller scale and comes within the scope of domestic industries.
The bakeries were the first branch of industry to be subjected to official
inquiry for the purposes of the Swedish Labour Statistics; hence, the conditions
under which the employees in that industry work — in many respects peculiar —
are comparatively well known.
2. TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY.
This group, one of the most important of our manufacturing
industries, on account of the great number of necessaries it comprises,
is in the official statistics divided in the following way:
Factories. Workmen. Production.8
Yarn and thread, etc.1............................................................237 10.839 47,907,000 kronor.
Textile fabrics..................................................................................180 14.730 57,869,000
Calendered fabrics......................................................................190 2,335 5,301,000
Articles of clothing, etc.*....................................................195 9,283 23,657,000
Total, in l’JOO 802 37,187 134,734,000 kronor.
Notwithstanding a production of such importance, this group of
manufactures is one of those most oppressing our import, which testifies
that the Swedish textile industry is far from sufficient for the country’s
’ Including rope-work, etc. — * AH kinds of manufactures of spinning materials,
such as textile fabrics, ribbons, embroideries, hats and bonnets, clothes, etc. — * A krona
= 1-10 shilling or 0 268 dollar.
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