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 VII. Earnings

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59 121. As it is not possible to set out in summary form all the figures regarding average daily and monthly earnings and the numbers working full time and their average monthly earnings for each of the sixteen different groups of workers dealt with in the above table for each centre the tollowing table only gives figures for average daily earnings for each group included in the table. For full particulars regarding average monthly earnings, numbers working full time and their average monthly earnings in Bombay and Bholapur, reference may be made to Tables Nos. X and XII, and for potential earnings for 27 days’ work to Table No. X1 for Ahmedabad :— Average Daily Earnings of Winders Average daily earnings in Sex Groups Class of Winders Bombay on Time Rates Piece Rates Ahmedabad on Time | Piece Rates Rates Sholapur on Time | Rates | Piece Rates Rs. a. p./Rs. a. p.|Rs. a. p.|Rs. a. p./Rs. a. p..Rs. a. p. Men Grey Winders ..; 0 12 0/0 10 1/012 1] 0 14 10 I. Colour Winders . 1 oimo 9 11 23 .. + Pirn Winders ../ 015 61 2 0015 8 .. 0 710 .. (Cheese Winders . O10 9 oo All Winders ..i 0 14 on 1 1 4 013 3] 015 200 710 Women . Grey Winders .. Colour Winders Pirn Winders .. Cheese Winders. 011 2/011 9 .. i011 9 010 110141110 8 6014 6 013 6013 8013 4 .. 016 0/012 40 91111 0 © A1l Winders | O13 1l 012 1 O11 . O19 7 0 6 2 a 6 § Od BR a 122. Male winders in all cases earned higher wages than women except in the case of Grey Winders on piece rates in Bombay but as there was only one male grey winder returned in this group the figure is not a comparable one. Female workers in the predominant groups—2,387 Grey winders on piece rates in Bombay and 434 Grey winders on piece rates in Ahmedahad—earned the same average daily wage. (5) Reelers 123. Reeling is an occupation in which female operatives are predominantly employed in all centres of the cotton mill industry in the Bombay Presidency. In Bombay, all the 2,044 reelers returned were women. In Ahmedabad, 429 out of the 483 reelers returned or 88-82 per cent. were women, whilst in Sholapur only one out of 381 reelers was a man. The combined ficures for all centres

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