| Boots and shoes | 192 | |
| Brass wire | 65 | |
| Bakeries | 64 | |
| Buttons | 71 | |
| Carpets | 86 | |
| Clothing | 191 | |
| Cotton goods | 641 | |
| Dyeing and finishing textiles | 70 | |
| Fireworks | 85 | |
| Foundry and machine shops | 212 | |
| Canning | 86 | |
| Gas and lamp fixtures | 181 | |
| Glass | 850 | |
| Hardware | 80 | |
| Hosiery and knit goods | 152 | |
| Iron and steel | 65 | |
| Linen goods | 316 | |
| Pocket-books | 60 | |
| Pottery | 193 | |
| Printing | 174 | |
| Roofing | 74 | |
| Shirts | 50 | |
| Silk | 1,199 | |
| Stamped ware | 119 | |
| Surgical appliances | 75 | |
| Tobacco | 183 | |
| Woolen goods | 187 | |
| Worsted goods | 456 | |
| 6,177 | ||
| Miscellaneous industries | 1,865 | |
| 8,042 |
Comparison of the reports of the United States Census, and of the New Jersey Factory Inspectors, for the year 1900, in regard to children employed in certain industries in eleven cities in New Jersey:
| Census Reports. | Factory Inspectors’ Reports. | |
|---|---|---|
| Bayonne—Petroleum | 21 | 0 |
| Camden—Worsted goods | 160 | 113 |
| Elizabeth—Tobacco | 0 | 30 |
| Elizabeth—Clothing and shirts | 9 | 10 |
| Elizabeth—Sewing machines | 0 | 22 |
| Hoboken and Jersey City—Silk | 60 | 60 |
| Hoboken—Clothing | 9 | 0 |
| Jersey City—Clothing | 3 | 0 |
| Jersey City—Electrical apparatus | 45 | 25 |
| Jersey City—Printing | 48 | 16 |
| Jersey City—Soap | 42 | 21 |
| Jersey City—Tobacco | 92 | 87 |
| Jersey City—Boxes | 0 | 44 |
| Newark—Boots and shoes | 108 | 0 |
| Newark—Carpentering | 65 | 0 |
| Newark—Clothing | 82 | 11 |
| Newark—Corsets | 34 | 17 |
| Newark—Foundry and mechanical shops | 52 | 0 |
| Newark—Hardware | 75 | 16 |
| Newark—Jewelry | 36 | 13 |
| Newark—Leather | 22 | 11 |
| Newark—Stamped ware | 116 | 0 |
| Newark—Tobacco | 19 | 35 |
| Newark—Thread | 0 | 100 |
| New Brunswick—Tobacco | 29 | 45 |
| Orange—Hats | 27 | 5 |
| Passaic—Woolen goods | 98 | 15 |
| Paterson—Silk | 832 | 504 |
| Paterson—Foundries | 91 | 0 |
| Trenton—Iron and steel | 54 | 0 |
| Trenton—Potteries | 118 | 204 |
| Trenton—Rubber | 28 | 47 |
| Trenton—Bakeries | 19 | 47 |
CHILD LABOR IN BELGIUM[[18]]
By E. Dubois
Professor in the University of Ghent
The industrial census of October 31, 1896, of which the complete results have just been published[[19]], furnishes the most recent and the most complete information regarding the extent of the industrial labor of children and the general conditions under which it exists.
Upon that date, out of a total of 671,596 laborers of all ages and both sexes, employed in the manufactures properly so called, and excluding the domestic workshops, there were 76,147 children less than sixteen years of age working in factories and workshops—that is to say, out of every 100 employees eleven were less than sixteen years of age.
The child labor was found principally:
(1) In the textile industries 11,863.