The table below describes the number of employees and factories in England and Wales from 1851 to 1901.

The table gives information about the number of male, female, and total employees and

factories

in England and Wales between 1851 and 1901.

Overall

, opposite to the employment trend, the number of

factories

increase over the 50-year period from 225 to 600. An instability growth is illustrated with the plateau in the first ten-year and a significant increase in the

last

period

although

a fluctuation from 1871 to 1881. During these 50 years, male and female labor in

factories

decreased: at the beginning, a large number of men worked in

factories

compared to women. Both trends declined to show a final rate of about 30.000:

while

men’s diminution showed fluctuation, women employment gradually declined.

According to

gender trends, total employment fell throughout the given period; from 1851 to 1861, there was a dramatic decline of about 100.000 employers

whereas

from 1871 it decreased gradually with an end-point rate of 61.000.