You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The table below describes the number of employees and factories in England and Wales from 1851 to 1901. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The table provides

data

on how many male and female

employees

worked in

factories

in the UK in England and Wales in six

separates

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separate

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year

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years

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, five decades apart, starting

1851

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in 1851

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.

Overall

,

it is clear that

the number of

employees

which was all three: male,

female

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and female

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, total decreased,

whereas

the number of

factories

was

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increased over the period shown.

Further

, male

employees

were always higher than female

employees

in all years except in 1861. Looking at the

data

sets of

employees

in more

details

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detail

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, it can be seen that the number of

employees

which was male and female and total stood at 287,100 and 190,000 and 477,100 in 1851, respectively, which were the highest values on the chart. By 1961,

data

had halved to 131,780 for men but, slightly higher for women, at 160,000, out of

total

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a total

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of 291,780.

Following

this

, male and female

employees

’ figures dropped consistently to 31,000 and 30,000

at the end

of the period. Total numbers were 61,000 in 1901. Turning to the

factories

data

set, it is evident that there were 225 and 227

of

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factories

in 1851 and 1861, respectively. By 1871, it had tripled to 622, after which

they

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peaked at 721 in 1881.

Finally

,

data

fell again to 600 in

last

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the last

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part of the table.