Industrial training : with special reference to the conditions prevailing in London / by N.B. Dearle.

  • Dearle, N. B. (Norman Burrell), 1882-1961
Date:
1914
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Credit: Industrial training : with special reference to the conditions prevailing in London / by N.B. Dearle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This includes not only the County Area, but those surrounding districts which really combine with it to form a single whole. Its total population is just over 7,250,000, or rather more than one-fifth of the whole population of England and Wales. In applying to other places, however, the results of an enquiry into London conditions, there are two questions which have to be answered. First, are the trades of London sufficiently varied and representative for the purpose ? Here, with certain reservations, an affirmative reply can be given. It is true that a few large industries, notably coal- mining, the conversion of metals and the textiles are almost non-existent; but apart from them, London practises a very large number of trades, and, even in proportion to its size, has a greater variety of employments than almost any other English city with the possible exception of Birmingham. On this point, therefore, a satisfactory answer is possible. Secondly, do the methods of London fairly repre- sent those which generally prevail ? To a great extent, as I have found it necessary to emphasize more than once, the special acuteness of London problems is not due so much to causes that are in operation there and nowhere else as to the fact that they are found in it in a more extreme form and to a more marked degree. Thus what has been said of the decline of Formal Apprenticeshi]') in the Capital, by no means holds good of other places. The mix-
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