The following table shows the number of factory workers for a given time period in Germany.

The table illustrates the sum of male and female factory

employees

in Germany in a period given with decade intervals.

Overall

, it can be viewed that the

number

of workers increased over the years

while

the

number

of

factories

declined.

In addition

, male

employees

were more than female ones in all years reported with the highest record reported in 1851.

Also

, in 1901, there was almost the same

number

of

employees

of both genders. In 1851, the

number

of male workers was almost one and a half times the

number

of female workers at 287,100 in 225

factories

.

Whereas

, in 1861, there was a mere increase of 2

factories

reported with the

number

of male and female

employees

decrease to 131,780 and 160,000 respectively.

Moreover

, the total

number

of

employees

in 1871 decreased by almost half to 140,123. Regarding the year 1881, the sum of the

employees

of the two genders decreased to 126,132

while

the

number

of

factories

rose to 721.

Furthermore

, the

number

of

employees

decreased between the years 1891 and 1901 to almost equal numbers of 31,000 males and 30,000 female

employees

with the lowest

number

of

factories

at 600.