Wages And Hours Of Labor In Manufacturing Industries 1890 To 1907

Author : U. S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366190690
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Wages and Hours of Labor in the Clothing and Cigar Industries written by U. S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wages and Hours of Labor in the Clothing and Cigar Industries: 1911 to 1913 In this report are shown the prevailing full-time weekly earnings, full-time hours of labor per week, and rates of wages (or earnings) per hour of employees in the principal occupations in the manufacture of men's factory-made clothing in the United States. The information herein contained was furnished by representative establishments in the leading clothing-manufacturing cities. Figures are given for the years 1911, 1912, and 1913. Earlier reports have presented rates of wages and hours of labor in this industry for the years 1890 to 1907 and for the years 1911 and Data were not collected by this Bureau for the years 1908 to 1910. Full-time weekly earnings in this industry in 1913 were per cent higher than in 1912, and per cent higher than in 1911. Full-time hours of labor per week in 1913 were per cent lower than in 1912 and per cent lower than in 1911. Rates of wages or earnings per hour in 1913 were per cent higher than in 1912 and per cent higher than in 1911. Summary figures for each occupation covered by this report are given in the table below. According to the plan of the table direct comparisons can be made properly only between the data for succes sive years coming from identical establishments. Data from iden tical establishments for successive years are grouped in the table. A greater number of the establishments have been canvassed each succeeding year. The data are for one pay-roll period in each year, generally a pay period in July or August. With few exceptions the pay period ccv ered one week. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.