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4 cases; special circumstances, 4 cases. It will be seen that, while
in 92 out of these 155 cases the discontinuance of Profit-sharing
appears to have been clue to various circumstances none of which
can well be attributed to the operation of this system, the number
of cases in which Profit-sharing was abandoned on the ground
that the system had failed in producing the results hoped for from
it is 03, or about two-fifths of the whole. A summary of the
causes of cessation of profit-sharing schemes by the trades in which
the schemes were adopted is given on p. 114 in Appendix 13.
Trades in which Profit-sharing Schemes have been
adopted.
With regard to the comparatively large number of schemes
which have been started since 1907, it may be pointed out that
up to and including that year only four gas .companies had
adopted profit-sharing methods, and that a considerable propor
tion (nearly one-half) of the number of schemes started since
1907 is due to the extension of profit-sharing methods among
gas companies which began in 1908. An account of the system
of profit-sharing practised by these companies is given on
pp. 54-64.
The following Table* gives particulars of the trades in which
profit-sharing schemes have been adopted: -
Nature of Business.
Total
Number
Number
of
Schemes existing at
1st August, 1912.
of
Schemes.
Schemes
abandoned.
Number of
Businesses.
Number of
Employees.
Building trades
12
9
3
151
Mining and quarrying
6
6
—
—
Metal, engineering and ship
building trades
Metal
9
8
1
163
Engineering and ship-
21
17
4
17,336
building.
Textile trades ...
14
7
7
4,951
Clothing trades
19
12f
5f
1,637
Transport ...
3
2
1
173
Agriculture
18
12
0
737
Printing, paper and allied
trades :—-
Paper making ... ...
1
4
794
Printing, bookbinding, &c.
36
25
11
3,389
Woodworking and furnishing
10
7
3
169
trades.
Chemical, glass, pottery, &c....
22
8
14
15,649
Food and tobacco
31
18
13
6,760+
28,246
Gas works
34
1
33
Electricity supply
2
—
2
414
Other businesses
57
30|
26f
25,620
299
163 f
133f
106,1891
'• inis xaoie mwuues all the information received by the Department no to
1st August, 1912.
f No recent particulars are available as regards three of the schemes started (two in the
Clothing trades and one in “Other businesses”) to show whether they are still in
existence or have been abandoned,
t Excluding one firm for which figures are not available,