Table 12. Median Weekly Hours by Geographical District 
Median weekly hours ** 
Full-fashioned hosiery Seamless hosiery 
Geographical 
district 
Men 
‘Women 
Nn ber | Median 
Number ' Median 
Philadelphia 
county Zr 
Berks county ..-. 
Northampton 
COUDLY —mmmeaene 
Other counties ..-. 
391 
68h 
437 
15 
48 
66 
50 
34 
682 
1479 
291 
37 
47 
653 
a. 
Total reporting __ 2528 bo 2469 
No record of hours 1407 ee 1850 
2035 oo 4319 1ommmmmann 
Men 
Women 
Number | Median | Number : 
Median 
112 
[+ 
123 
40 
47 
30 
- 
a 
42 
1802 eee 
8 
ed 
MIS [came 
Variation from scheduled weekly hours 
The actual working hours of the men and women employed in the 
hosiery industry varied considerably from the full-time or scheduled 
hours of work, with a tendency toward undertime rather than overtime 
work. Women in particular tended to work less than their scheduled 
hours, 56 per cent of those employed in the full-fashioned hosiery in- 
dustry and 70 per cent of those in seamless hosiery establishments 
worked less than their scheduled hours. (Chart 4) Precisely one-third 
of the men in both types of hosiery manufacture worked undertime. 
The full-time scheduled hours were worked by 37 per cent of the women 
in the full-fashioned industry and 29 per cent in the seamless hosiery 
industry. Men had more overtime work in seamless than in full- 
fashioned hosiery. Women had very little overtime work in full: 
tashioned hosiery and practically none in seamless hosiery. 
Of the men and women working overtime both in the full-fashioned 
and in the seamless hosiery industry, the majority had less than eight 
Lours overtime. For those losing time from their work, in general 
the lost time was much greater in the seamless than in the full-fashioned 
hosiery industry. Practically one-fifth of the men and more than one- 
half the women engaged in the manufacture of seamless hosiery lost 
eight hours or more from their regular weekly schedule (Table 13). 
Variation from scheduled weekly hours by occupational classification 
Any comparison of scheduled hours by occupational classification is 
limited by the extremely large number of employes in many occupations 
*Medign not computed where the number Is less than 165. 
*»The median hour included the fraction of the hour up to the next interval, 1. e., 
0 included 50 and less than 51 hours.