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Average Number of Hands employed. |
Workers and dealers in animal and vegetable substances (soap boilers, tallow chandlers, fellmongers, tanners, timber and firewood merchants, turners, coopers, sawyers, basket makers, &c.) |
12.73 |
Workers and dealers in textile fabrics, dress and fibrous materials (Manchester warehousemen, drapers, woollen manufacturers, clothing manufacturers, boot and show manufacturers, rope, canvas, matting makers, &c.) |
9.26 |
Workers and dealers in minerals (miners, quarry owners, brick and pottery makers, glass makers, &c.) |
7.67 |
Engaged in art and mechanic productions (printers, bookbinders, newspaper proprietors, musical instrument makers, mechanical engineers, tool makers, coachbuilders, saddlers, wheelwrights, millwrights, agricultural implement makers, ship builders, sail makers, builders, building contractors, carpenters, bricklayers, masons, manufacturing chemists, &c.) |
7.23 |
Workers and dealers in food and drinks (cow keepers, butchers, provision curers, meat preservers, millers, bakers, brewers, wine makers, merchants, distillers, aerated water makers, &c.) |
3.79 |
Engaged in agriculture and grazing (farmers, squatters, graziers, agricultural implement proprietors, &c.) |
2.26 |