Two facts serve to give prominence to the growth of "sweating" in the tailoring trades.

During the last few years there has been a fall of some 30 per cent, in the prices paid for the same class of work.

During the same period the irregularity of work has increased.

Even in fairly large shops the work for ordinary labour only averages some three days in the week, while we must reckon two and a half days for unskilled workers in smaller workshops, or working at home.
Among provincial towns Liverpool, Manchester, and Leeds show a rapid growth of sweating in the clothing trade.

In each case the evil is imputed to "an influx of foreigners, chiefly Jews." In each town the same conditions appear--irregular work and wages, unsanitary conditions, over-crowding, evasion of inspection.