The Textile Workforce (1882-1925)
| German Reich | Prussia | Rhine Province | Government District Düsseldorf (Prussia) | | Men | Women | Total | Men | Women | Total | Men | Women | Total | Men | Women | Total | 1882 | | Number | 527,079 | 323,780 | 850,859 | | | | | | | | | | % | 61.9 | 38.1 | | | | | | | | | | | Growth | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1895 | | Number | 517,230 | 427,961 | 945,191 | 125,210 | 120,492 | 245,702 | | | | 50,880 | 40,846 | 91,366 | % | 54.7 | 45.3 | | 51.0 | 49.0 | | | | | 55.7 | 44.3 | | Growth | - 1.9% | 32.2% | 11.1% | | | | | | | | | | | 1907 | | Number | 529,008 | 528,235 | 1,057,243 | 234,867 | 210,585 | 445,452 | 101,282 | 73,425 | 174,707 | | | | % | 50.0 | 50.0 | | 52.7 | 47.3 | | 58.0 | 42.0 | | | | | Growth | 2.3% | 23.4% | 11.9% | 87.6% | 74.8% | 81.3% | | | | | | | | 1913 | | Number | | | | 199,058 | 205,120 | 404,178 | | | | 60,852 | 62,992 | 123,844 | % | | | | 49.3 | 50.7 | | | | | 49.1 | 50.9 | | Growth | | | | - 15.2% | - 2.6% | - 9.3% | | | | 19.6% | 55.6% | 35.5% | | 1925 | | Number | 514,858 | 681,262 | 1,196,120 | 229,012 | 245,471 | 474,483 | 88,205 | 78,915 | 167,120 | | | | % | 43.0 | 57.0 | | 48.3 | 51.7 | | 52.8 | 47.2 | | | | | Growth | - 2.7% | 29.0% | 13.1% | 15.0% | 19.7% | 17.4% | - 12.9% | 7.5% | - 4.3% | | | | Source: Wilhem Bochmert, "Wandlungen der deutschen Volkswirtschaft, 1888-1907: Ergebnisse der Berufs- und Bertriebszählungen" [“Changes in the German National Economy: Results of the Census for Professions and Enterprises”], Arbeiterfreund [The Worker’s Friend] 48 (1910): 24-25, 136; George Neuhaus, "Die berufliche und soziale Gliederung im Zeitalter des Kapitalismus" ["The Professional and Social Structure in the Age of Capitalism"], in Grundriss der Socialökonomik [Outline of Social Economics] (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1914), 9: pp. 399, 424-25. Reprinted from Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, p. 32. Copyright © 1996 by Cornell University. Used by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press, www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.
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