The text is taken from my copy of FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work, Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York, 1912.
CONTENTS.
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE DECENTRALISATION OF INDUSTRIES . . . . . . . 17
Division of labour and integration--The spread of
industrial skill--each nation its own producer of
manufactured goods--The United Kingdom--France
--Germany--Russia--"German Competition."
CHAPTER II THE DECENTRALISATION OF INDUSTRIES
(continued). . . 50
Italy and Spain--India--Japan--The United States--
The cotton, woollen, and silk trades--The growing
necessity for each country to rely chiefly upon home
consumers.
CHAPTER III. THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE . . . . . . . 79
(Second Half)
The development of agriculture--The over-population
prejudice--Can the soil of Great Britain feed its
inhabitants?--British agriculture--Compared with
agriculture in France; in Belgium, in Denmark--
Market gardening: its achievements--Is it profitable
to grow wheat in Great Britain--American agriculture
intensive culture in the States.
CHAPTER IV. THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE . . . . . . . 158
(continued)
The doctrine of Malthus--Progress in wheat-growing--
East Flanders--Channel Islands--Potato crops, past and
present--Irrigation--Major Hallett's experiments--Planted
wheat.
CHAPTER V. THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE . . . . . . . 188
(continued)
Extension of market-gardening and fruit-growing:
in France; in the United States--Culture under glass
--Kitchen gardens under glass--Hothouse culture:
in Guernsey and Jersey; in Belgium--Conclusion.
CHAPTER VI. SMALL INDUSTRIES AND INDUSTRIAL VILLAGES . . . 241
Industry and agriculture--The small industries--Different
types--Petty trades in Great Britain-- Sheffield,
Leeds, Lake District, Birmingham--Stastistical data
-- Petty trades in France weaving and various other
trades--The Lyons region--Paris, emporium of petty
trades--Results of the census of 1896.
CHAPTER VII. SMALL INDUSTRIES AND INDUSTRIAL VILLAGES . . 325
(continued)
Petty trade in Germany: discussions upon the
subject and conclusions arrived at--Results of the census
taken in I882, 1895, and 1007--Petty trades in Russia
--Conclusions.
CHAPTER VIII. BRAIN WORK AND MANUAL WORK . . . . . . . . . 363
Divorce between science and handicraft--Technical education
--Complete education--The Moscow system; applied at Chicago,
Boston, Aberdeen--Concrete teaching--Present waste of time
--Science and technics--Advantages which science can derive
from a combination of brain work with manual work.
CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
APPENDIX.
A. BRITISH INVESTMENTS ABROAD . . . . . . . 421
B. FRENCH IMPORTS .. . . . . . . . . . . . .422
C. GROWTH OF INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA. . . . . . .423
D. IRON INDUSTRY IN GERMANY. . . . . .. . . 423
E. MACHINERY IN GERMANY. . . . . .. . . . . 424
F. COTTON INDUSTRY IN GERMANY . . . . . . . 425
G. MINING AND TEXTILES IN AUSTRIA. . . . . .427
H. COTTON MANUFACTURE IN INDIA. . . . . .. .428
I. THE COTTON INDUSTRY IN THE STATES. . . . 430
J. MR. GIFFEN'S AND MR. FLUX'S FIGURES. . . 432
CONCERNING THE POSITION OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM IN INTERNATIONAL
TRADE:
K. MARKET-GARDENING IN BELGIUM . .. . . . . . 434
L. THE CHANNEL ISLANDS--THE SCILLY ISLANDS . .435
M. IRRIGATED MEADOWS IN ITALY .. . . . . . 444
N. PLANTED WHEAT; THE ROTHAMSTED CHALLENGE. 444
O. REPLANTED WHEAT. . . . . .. . . . . .. . 445
P. IMPORTS OF VEGETABLES TO THE UNITED. . . 447
KINGDOM
Q. FRUIT CULTURE IN BELGIUM. . . . . .. . . 449
R. CULTURE UNDER GLASS IN HOLLAND . .. . . .450
S. PRICES OBTAINED IN LONDON FOR DESSERT
GRAPES CULTIVATED UNDER GLASS . . . 451
T. THE USE OF ELECTRICITY IN AGRICULTURE . 452
U. PETTY TRADES IN THE LYONS REGION .. . . .454
V. SMALL INDUSTRIES AT PARIS . . .. . . . . 460
W. RESULTS OF THE CENSUS OF THE FRENCH
INDUSTRIES IN 1896. . . . . . . . . . . 462
X. THE SMALL INDUSTRIES IN GERMANY . . . . 468
Y. THE DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES IN SWITZERLAND . 475
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