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others are in Tammerfors and Åbo; others in Viborg,
Vasa, Björneborg, Uleåborg, Kotka, and Jakobstad,
after which come the other towns on the coast.
The small towns have not progressed as much as the
larger, as usually happens in these days. Considerable
influence was exercised in former days by the
guilds or corporations, which were finally abolished
in 1879, and which, together with town privileges,
gave to certain small towns an artificial advantage at
the expense of other localities. In 1887 each business
had on an average eight workmen and an output
of 20,000 marks per annum; and in 1898 this
average was twelve workmen and 36,000 marks. In
1843 most of the work was done by hand; there
being ninety factories with 8500 artisans, 6000
hired workmen, and an output not much exceeding
2 million marks; while most of the master-craftsmen,
notwithstanding the town privileges, lived in the
country. Now only a small part of the manufacture
is produced by artisans, the amount in 1897 being
31 million marks, which came from four thousand
shops with 13,800 workmen.
With regard to the wages of Finnish workmen
we have already quoted the averages in the textile
industry. They vary considerably; for one reason,
because piece-work is much in vogue. This is the
case even with women and children; as an example
of whose wages we may quote the women in the linen
mills at Tammerfors, who receive 2 marks, the boys
receiving 1 mark 50 penni, older boys 1.90 and
small girls 1.40. Wages in the textile mills here, as
usual, are not the highest, because the work makes less
demand on the strength of the workers and is not
always very trying. In the paper-mills, where the case
is the same, the average wage is stated to be 612 marks,
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