Real Fábrica de Puros y Cigarros de México, 1769: seven thousand people of both sexes in one workshop

The crown's cigar factory in Mexico City opened in a rented house on the calle de Cadena at the end of June 1769 and grew, on the compilation's own account, to employ "siete mil personas de ambos sexos" in the barrio of Santa Catarina Mártir — one of the largest single workplaces anywhere in the eighteenth century, and among the first to put women into wage work at that scale. It existed because the independent cigar shops had been closed by decree.