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

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V. I. LENIN<br />

the organisation <strong>of</strong> which more or less detailed information is<br />

available. We get 97 industries employing 107,957 persons,<br />

with an output <strong>to</strong>talling 21,151,000 rubles. Of these,<br />

industries in which wage-labour and capitalist domestic<br />

industry predominate employ 70,204 persons (18,621,000 rubles);<br />

industries in which wage-workers and workers occupied<br />

at home for capitalists constitute only a minority employ<br />

26,935 persons (1,706,000 rubles); and, finally, industries<br />

in which independent labour almost completely predominates<br />

employ 10,818 persons (824,000 rubles). According <strong>to</strong><br />

Zemstvo statistical materials regarding 7 industries <strong>of</strong><br />

Gorba<strong>to</strong>v and Semyonov uyezds <strong>of</strong> Nizhni-Novgorod<br />

Gubernia, there are 16,303 handicraftsmen, <strong>of</strong> whom 4,614<br />

work for the local market; 8,520 work “for a master,” and<br />

3,169 as wage-workers; in other words, 11,689 are capitalistically<br />

employed workers. According <strong>to</strong> the returns <strong>of</strong> the<br />

1894-95 Perm handicraft census, <strong>of</strong> 26,000 handicraftsmen,<br />

6,500 (25%) are wage-workers, and 5,200 (20%) work for<br />

buyers-up, in other words, 45% are capitalistically employed<br />

workers.*<br />

Fragmentary as the data are (no others were available),<br />

they nevertheless clearly show that, taken as a whole, a<br />

mass <strong>of</strong> capitalistically employed workers are classified<br />

among the “handicraftsmen.” For instance, those working<br />

at home for capitalists number (according <strong>to</strong> the above-quoted<br />

data) over 200,000. And this is for some 50 or 60 uyezds,<br />

by no means all <strong>of</strong> which have been investigated thoroughly.<br />

For the whole <strong>of</strong> Russia the number <strong>of</strong> workers <strong>of</strong> this type<br />

must be something like two million.** If <strong>to</strong> these are added<br />

* See Studies, pp. 181-182. The figures for “handicraftsmen”<br />

here include artisans (25%). If we exclude the artisans, we get 29.3%<br />

wage-workers and 29.5% working for buyers-up (p. 122), i.e., 58.8%<br />

are capitalistically employed workers. (See present edition, <strong>Vol</strong>. 2,<br />

The Handicraft Census <strong>of</strong> 1894-95 in Perm Gubernia.—Ed.)<br />

** For example, capitalist work in the home is particularly<br />

developed in the ready-made clothing industry, which is growing<br />

rapidly. “The demand for such an article <strong>of</strong> prime necessity as readymade<br />

clothing is increasing from year <strong>to</strong> year” (Vestnik Finansov,<br />

1897 No. 52, Survey <strong>of</strong> Nizhni-Novgorod Fair). The enormous<br />

development <strong>of</strong> this industry has taken place only since the 80s. At<br />

the present time, in Moscow alone ready-made clothing is produced<br />

<strong>to</strong> a <strong>to</strong>tal value <strong>of</strong> not less than 16 million rubles, with some 20,000<br />

workers employed. It is estimated that for the whole <strong>of</strong> Russia the

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