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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita386recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
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148 AUSTEIA-HUNGAEY. are the chief seats of the iron industry ; Bohemia and Moravia engage in the textile industries, in the manufacture of g-hiss and of beet-root sugar, and in the brewing of beer. Vienna i^roduces textile fabrics, machines, chemical products, and a variety of minor articles. Hungary, Transylvania, and Croatia can hardly be said to have a manufacturing industry, and Pest cannot bear comparison in this respect with Vienna, Reichenberg, or other manufacturing centres of Bohemia or Moravia. The prolétariat of Austria and Bohemia is essentially composed of old Fig. 90.—The Sohlergrund, or Plain of Zolyom, in the Mixing District of Zolyom, Huxgaky.
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factory hands, whilst in Hungary it consists of agricultural labourers. In the latter country male domestics are twice as numerous as in Austria, whose manufacturing industry offers better chances of remunerative occupation.* The minor industries are gradually being absorled by huge manufacturing establishments. The peasant linen-weavers have almost disappeared. Huge distilleries are gradually superseding the domestic stills, and the corn is ground in * In 1871 there existed 155 cotton-mills, with 1,526,555 spindles (in Bohemia 705,279 sjiindlcs); linon-mills with 400,000 spindles; and 2,335 hrcweries, producing 277,200,000 gallons. The beet-root sugar factories, in 1877-8, consumed 26,286,074 cwts. of beet-root.

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