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Chapter : 3. Work, Life & Leisure - Cities in Count. World
Work in the City
(b) Work in the City : (i) Bombay became the capital of the Bombay Presidency in 1819. The city quickly expanded. With the growth of trade in cotton and opium, large communities of traders and bankers as well as artisans and shopkeepers came to settle in Bombay's. Inhabitants between 1881 and 1931 were born in Bombay : The establishment of textile mills led to a fresh surge in migration. About one-fourth of Bombay: the rest came from outside. Large numbers flowed in from the nearby district of Ratnagiri to work in the Bombay mills. (ii) Between 1919-1926 women formed 23% of the workforce but by the 1930s, women's jobs were increasingly taken over by machines or by men. (iii) Bombay dominated the maritime trade till well into the twentieth century. It was also at the junction head of two major railways. The railways encouraged an even higher scale of migration into the city.