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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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