Note 582 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
Included in the above total were 99,650 women in 52 Unions, distributed among the groups as follows:
Engineering and Metal Trades 2,850
Building and Furniture Trades 300
Mining ...
Textile Manufactures 80,900
Clothing and Leather Trades 8,650
Printing Trades 400
Miscellaneous Crafts 3,450
Labourers and Transport Workers 3,100
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99,650
We may add that the subsequently published Board of Trade statistics for 1892, arranged on a slightly different classification, gave the following totals by industrial groups:
Metal, Engineering and Shipbuilding 279,534
Building 157,971
Mining and Quarrying 315,272
Textile 204,022
Clothing 83,299
Transport 154,947
Other Trades 307,313
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1,502,358
See Report on Trade Unions for 1901 (Cd. 773).