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.