On health and occupation / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.

  • Benjamin Ward Richardson
Date:
1879
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Credit: On health and occupation / by Benjamin Ward Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    storing for winter ; and winter with beauty even then, and change of labour. Presuming that the agricul- tural occupation were better remunerated, it were of all the most healthy, and so it has ever been esteemed. And this, which promises so well from a theoretical point of view, is practically what is insured. The health of the agricultural class, despite all the draw- backs to it, is, as wo shall see in another chapter, above the average in value. Class V.—Industrial Men and Women. We come next to the largest of all the classes of workers in this kingdom,—the class called the Indus- trial. It is not implied by the specific name that this class alone is industrious, but that it is specifically industrial, or of all classes the most closely engaged in handicraft and automatic labour. There are in it no fewer than five orders of workers. One is engaged in mechanical and artistic productions, in which materials of various kinds are used in combination ; a second is employed in producing textile fabrics and articles of clothing ] a third is working to prepare for use various foods and drinks ; a fourth is dealing in animal substances; a fifth in vegetables ; and a sixth is obtaining and preparing for use the mineral wealth of the country. It will occur to every reader that this class must indeed be large, It numbers 5,137,725, of whom 3,615,727 are males and 1,521,998 are females. Nearly a fourth of the whole population is thus em- ployed in industrial wrork, and if from the whole population we extract the members of it who do no manner of work that is directly remunerative, the said number of the industrials is raised to nearly a third of those who work for their bread. Every variety of occupation of a productive kind
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