The table below describes the number of employees and factories in england and wales from 1851 to 1901

The provided table represents how many workers and factories are in England and Wales for 50 years from 1851 to 1901.

Overall

, it can be clearly observed that both the

number

of male and female employees experienced a downward trend,

whereas

the figure for manufactories showed a reverse trend.

In addition

, the

number

of men outnumbered women over the timeline except in 1861. Moving on to the details, the

number

of male workers stood at around 287,000 and

then

this

figure witnessed a dramatic decline to roughly 130,000.

Likewise

, the figure for women decreased drastically by 30,000 from 190,000 to 160,000.

Following

this

, there was a plummet in the

number

of men (approximately 80,000) and women employees (60,000) in 1871. After 1871, those saw a gradual fall to 31,000 and 30,000 consecutively. Another striking change is the growth of factories where these manufactories experienced a slight increase to 227 in 1861. Having slowly improved,

this

soared to 622, which means that it grew more than three times.

Following

this

, there was a moderate rise to 721 but

then

it witnessed a downward tendency to 600 in the

last

year.