Rapport sur les niveaux de vie des ouvriers dans différents pays

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Identifikator:: 1755732333

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-137085

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Title:: Rapport sur les niveaux de vie des ouvriers dans différents pays

Place of publication:: [Genf]

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Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 22, 22 Seiten; Taf.

Digitisation:: 2021

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Title:: III. Les budgets de ménages ouvriers

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15 average consumption in each country. It follows from these remarks that in drawing conclusions from the figures generalisa- tions should be avoided, and that the results of the calculations must not be considered too rigorously. Subject to these reserves, however, the figures given in the table, and represented in the diagrams, undoubtedly possess real indicative value. They show the wide, and sometimes enormous, differences between the purchasing powers of workers belonging to the same occupations in different countries. Taking the general average for all budgets (average basket of provisions) for the whole period under review, we find, for example, that the purchasing power of a worker in Philadelphia is approximately twice that of a worker in London or Copen- hagen, three times that of a worker in Paris or Berlin, and four times that of a worker in Rome, Milan, Vienna, Tallinn, Riga, Warsaw, Lodz, etc. III. Workers’ Family Budgets. The enquiries carried out in various countries on workers’ family budgets provide a useful complement to the above data. They give some indication as to how the expenditure of wage- earners’ households is distributed over the principal categories of ordinary needs, and also in most cases give some idea of how the structure of the budget itself is affected by the income. The enquiries which it has been possible to use in the present study * relate to the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Finland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States. All these enquiries were carried out by official bodies. The majority of them were made comparatively re- cently (since the war); a certain number, however, date back to more or less distant periods. The dates of the enquiries the results of which have been utilised are as follows: Argentina, 1925; Belgium, 1853, 1921? ; Esthonia, Oct.- . ! Various enquiries covering both workers and officials, without making any distine- tion in the statistics between these two classes, have not been taken into account. ? The Belgian enquiry of 1891 has not been utilised, owing to the objections raised to the conditions under which it was carried out. (Cf. Dr. Ernst ENGEL: Die Lebenskosten belgischer Arbeiterfamilien früher und jetzt.)

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