EY $ — 2 3 { 12 ro vs a Table 12. Median Weekly Hours by Geographical District Median weekly hours ** Full-fashioned hosiery Seamless hoslery teographieal district Men Women Men Women Number | Median Number Median Number Median Number | Median wo wh > on NO 5 =k x ‘adelphia WEY wommmmmins ¥8 county eel thampton UNLY wcecreneee er counties ._.. al reporting ._: record of hours 7: 301 1685 437 15 2628 1407 3085 48 he 632 1479 201 or 47 Ee 24¢ 180 .. 4319 Co ADD | anew 123 “0H 47 80 “ al 42 1802 Foo. riation from scheduled weekly hours T ¢ r ®: - Ly EE The actual working hours of the men and women employed in the siery industry varied considerably from the full-time or scheduled urs of work, with a tendency toward undertime rather than overtime ork. Women in particular tended to work less than their scheduled urs, 56 per cent of those employed in the full-fashioned hosiery in- istry and 70 per cent of those in seamless hosiery establishments orked less than their scheduled hours. (Chart 4) Precisely one-third the men in both types of hosiery manufacture worked undertime. he full-time scheduled hours were worked by 37 per cent of the women the full-fashioned industry and 29 per cent in the seamless hosiery dustry. Men had more overtime work in seamless than in full- shioned hosiery. Women had very little overtime work in full- ishioned hosiery and practically none in seamless hosiery. Of the men and women working overtime both in the full-fashioned 1d in the seamless hosiery industry, the majority had less than eight ours overtime. For those losing time from their work, in general le lost time was much greater in the seamless than in the full-fashioned »siery industry. Practically one-fifth of the men and more than one- alf the women engaged in the manufacture of seamless hosiery lost ght hours or more from their regular weekly schedule (Table 13). ariation from scheduled weekly hours by occupational classification Any comparison of scheduled hours by occupational classification is mited by the extremely large number of employes in many occupations > “0 iy *Median not computed where the number {8 less than 15. "The median hour included the fraction of the hour up to the next interval, fi. e., included 50 and less than 51 hours. La “iy