SCOPE AND METHOD 
Proportion of Industry Represented 
Data on earnings and hours of work were obtained from 36 hosiery 
plants and for more than 10,000 hosiery workers. These constitute 
12 per cent of the hosiery plants in the state and nearly one-fourth 
of the hosiery workers. 
Table 1. Proportion of Industry Represented* 
Hoslery plants oem meee eee 
EIDIOYeS meee eee eee 
In state | In study 
311 
45,495 
36 
10.687 
Proportion 
in study 
11.6 
23.5 
Type of hosiery plants studied 
The hosiery plants studied are classified as full-fashioned and seam- 
less according to the type of product manufactured. The process 
of manufacture of the two types of hosiery is distinetly different as 
are the general conditions of employment. The difference in employ- 
ment conditions may be to some extent a reflection of the general in- 
dustrial prosperity which obtains in the two types of hosiery manu- 
facture, as the manufacture of full-fashioned hosiery is a growing, 
prosperous industry while the manufacture of seamless hosiery is de- 
clining steadily .** 
More seamless than full-fashioned hosiery plants were included in 
the study, but the number of employes engaged in the manufacture 
of full-fashioned hosiery was much greater than the number engaged 
in the manufacture of seamless hosiery. In five plants both full- 
fashioned and seamless hosiery were manufactured, In most cases 
the plant was engaged primarily in the manufacture of one type of 
hosiery and carried on only finishing processes for the other type of 
work. The classification of the hosiery plants studied is as follows : 
Table 2. Type of Hosiery Plant 
Type of plant 
Pull-fashioned hOSIETY mumeme ooo ee eee eeeee 
Pull-fashioned and seamless hoOSIOry ome coer 
[23 GTLRD Tet 1) 
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DOB cements 35 mm tc AP 504 em 
Plant 
Number 
Embploves 
0 
kb 
R 
7,449 
1,620 
1,618 
10 687 
28 
*Pennsvivania Industrial Direstorvy. 109% 
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