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Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 3 - From Marx to Mao

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416<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

Turning <strong>to</strong> the economic organisation <strong>of</strong> the Pavlovo<br />

industries, we must first <strong>of</strong> all note the indubitable fact that<br />

the “handicraftsmen” are headed by the most typical<br />

capitalist manufac<strong>to</strong>ries. For example, in the Zavyalovs’<br />

establishment (which already in the 60s employed over 100<br />

workers at the bench and has now introduced a steamengine)<br />

a penknife passes through 8 or 9 hands: the forger,<br />

blade-maker, handle-maker (usually an outside worker),<br />

hardener, facer, polisher, finisher, grinder and marker.<br />

This is extensive capitalist co-operation based on division <strong>of</strong><br />

labour, with a considerable number <strong>of</strong> the workers performing<br />

individual operations employed at home and not in<br />

the capitalist’s workshop. Here are facts given by<br />

Mr. Labzin (in 1866) on the bigger establishments in the<br />

villages <strong>of</strong> Pavlovo, Vorsma and Vacha, covering all branches<br />

<strong>of</strong> production in this district: 15 proprie<strong>to</strong>rs had 500 workers<br />

occupied on the premises and 1,134 workers outside,<br />

making a <strong>to</strong>tal <strong>of</strong> 1,634, with an output <strong>to</strong>talling 351,700<br />

rubles. How far this description <strong>of</strong> economic relations is<br />

applicable <strong>to</strong> the whole district at the present time may be<br />

seen from the following data*:<br />

Districts<br />

for the market<br />

Number <strong>of</strong> persons engaged in<br />

industries and working<br />

for proprie<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

as wageworkers<br />

for proprie<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

and as<br />

wage-workers<br />

Pavlovo . . . . . . . . . 3,132 2,819 619 3,438 6,570<br />

District around village <strong>of</strong> 2<br />

Selitba . . . . . . . . 41 60 136 196 237<br />

Murom . . . . . . . . . 500 ? ? 2,000 2,500 1<br />

Total . . . . . . 3,673 — — 5,634 9,307 3<br />

* Data from Zemstvo statistical Material, and Mr. Annensky’s<br />

Report, and also A. N. Potresov’s researches (cited above). The<br />

figures for the Murom district are approximate. The number <strong>of</strong><br />

inhabitants, according <strong>to</strong> the 1897 census, was 4,674 in Vorsma, and<br />

12,431 in Pavlovo.<br />

Total<br />

Approximate <strong>to</strong>tal<br />

output (million<br />

rubles)<br />

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