Report on an enquiry into wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1827868163

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221455

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on an enquiry into wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926

Place of publication:: Bombay

Publisher:: Government Central Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: III, 172 S.; zahlr. Tab

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV. Attendance and absenteeism

Collection:: Economics Books

67. An often discussed question or which no reliable statistical infor- mation was hitherto available is the actual time loss to the workers on account of absenteeism with the corresponding loss in wages. The following table shows the number of man-days lost through absenteeism during the period of the Enquiry in the selected mills at each centre :— Working days lost through absenteeism by Centre Bombay .e Ahmedabad .. Sholapur . Total Men 73,8566 26,373 12.469 1.12.698 | Women 38,647 5,978 2.363 46.988 | All adult workers 1,12,603 32,351 14.832 1.59.686 68. The.loss in earnings per head separately for men and women werkers and all adult operatives returned in the Enquiry for each centre was as follows :(— Per capita loss in earnings through absenteeism for Centre Bombay vi ws .“t Ahmedabad .. wv : Sholapur Men Rs. a. p. | 214 3 215 0 2a 6 5b Women Rs. a. p. 2 6 2 1 89 1 2 8B | All adult workers Rs. a. p. 212 5 210 9 3 0 2 69. Children have not been included in the three preceding tables. Half-time workers lost 654 days with Rs. 224-13-0 in earnings iu Ahmedabad and 809 days with Rs. 202-4-0 in earnings in Sholapur. The per capita loss in relation to the total number of children employed was five annas and six pies in Ahmedabad and Re. 1-0-10 in Sholapur.

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