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

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472<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

<strong>to</strong>gether with fac<strong>to</strong>ry workers! For 1866 (according <strong>to</strong> the<br />

Yearbook) up <strong>to</strong> 22,000 home workers were included among<br />

fac<strong>to</strong>ry workers (by no means the full number, for the<br />

Yearbook, evidently by pure accident, omits in the case<br />

<strong>of</strong> Moscow Gubernia those notes about “work from village<br />

<strong>to</strong> village” which are so abundant for Vladimir Gubernia).<br />

For 1890 (according <strong>to</strong> the Direc<strong>to</strong>ry) we found only about<br />

9,000 such workers. Clearly, the figures given in the<br />

fac<strong>to</strong>ry statistics (1866—59,000 workers in the cot<strong>to</strong>nweaving<br />

mills; 1890—75,000) underrate the increase in the<br />

number <strong>of</strong> fac<strong>to</strong>ry workers that actually <strong>to</strong>ok place.* Here<br />

are data showing what different establishments were<br />

classed at different times as cot<strong>to</strong>n-weaving “fac<strong>to</strong>ries”:**<br />

Total cot<strong>to</strong>n- These include<br />

Y e a r sweaving<br />

“fac<strong>to</strong>ries”<br />

fac<strong>to</strong>ries<strong>of</strong>ficesworkrooms<br />

1866 436 256 38 142<br />

1879 411 209 66 136<br />

1890 311 283 21 7<br />

Thus, the decrease in the number <strong>of</strong> “fac<strong>to</strong>ries” shown<br />

by the “statistics” actually indicates the displacing <strong>of</strong><br />

distributing <strong>of</strong>fices and workrooms by the fac<strong>to</strong>ry. Let us<br />

illustrate this by the example <strong>of</strong> two fac<strong>to</strong>ries:<br />

* Cf. Tugan-Baranovsky, loc. cit., p. 420.—The <strong>to</strong>tal number<br />

<strong>of</strong> village hand weavers working for capitalists was estimated by<br />

Semyonov at approximately 385,857 in 1859 (loc. cit., III, 273);<br />

<strong>to</strong> these he added another 200,000 village workers engaged “in other<br />

fac<strong>to</strong>ry trades” (ibid., p. 302). At the present time, as we have seen<br />

above, the number <strong>of</strong> capitalistically employed home workers is much<br />

larger.<br />

** Establishments with an output <strong>of</strong> under 2,000 rubles are<br />

classed as workrooms. The data <strong>of</strong> the special investigation <strong>of</strong> fac<strong>to</strong>ries<br />

and works in Moscow and Vladimir gubernias made in 1868 by<br />

the Central Statistical Committee contain the repeated statement<br />

that the output figures <strong>of</strong> the small weaving establishments merely<br />

indicate pay for work done. Establishments that distribute work <strong>to</strong><br />

home workers are classed as <strong>of</strong>fices. For 1866 the figure given for these<br />

establishments is far from complete, owing <strong>to</strong> obvious omissions<br />

in the case <strong>of</strong> Moscow Gubernia.

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