Hermann von Schullern zu Schrattenhofen · 1901
Schullern’s brief review announces the Belgian Office du travail’s second volume, leaving the collection’s broader significance to an earlier review. He identifies three statistically and graphically documented monographs: Ernest Dubois on Flemish domestic wool weaving, Maurice Anciaux on straw plaiting in the Geer valley, and Ch. Gilles de Pélichy on Flemish domestic shoemaking.
His selective appraisal moves from historical documentation to the conditions of industrial survival. Dubois’s study receives particular praise:
Die erste Abhandlung verdient eingehendes Studium; sie enthält auch eine Menge legislativ-historischen Materiales, das auf Jahrhunderte zurückgeht.
English translation: The first treatise deserves thorough study; it also contains a quantity of legislative-historical material that goes back centuries.
For Anciaux, Schullern singles out the historical account and technical organization, then connects markets and wages to an impending crisis:
Auch auf die Schilderung der heutigen Absatz- und Lohnverhältnisse sei verwiesen, die auf das baldige Verschwinden dieser Industrie schliessen lassen, wenn nicht eine ausgedehnte Gründung von Genossenschaften, insbesondere Consumvereinen im letzten Augenblicke Rettung bringt.
English translation: Reference may also be made to the account of present-day sales and wage conditions, which permit the inference that this industry will soon disappear, unless an extensive founding of cooperatives, in particular consumer associations, brings rescue at the last moment.
Cooperation thus supplies the review’s principal interpretive thread. In shoemaking, which Schullern also finds nationally, economically, and socially significant, cooperatives are already emerging slowly in several forms; he cautiously credits them with the possibility of preserving local prosperity. The notice values empirical and historical inquiry while treating domestic industry’s future as contingent on collective organization, not simply as an inevitable decline.
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