The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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Identifikator:: 1757028552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 152 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. Employment and wages in agriculture

Collection:: Economics Books

107 their duties entail. In some counties a special inclusive minimum wage has been fixed for such workers, and in others they are simply paid the ordinary wage with extra payments at overtime rates for the additional time worked. Taking England and Wales as a whole, it is estimated that on the average the special classes of workers receive about 5s. per week above the wage paid to the ordinary labourer. In many parts of the country, workers receive additional sums for overtime employment on seasonal work such as the hay and corn harvests, or have the opportunity of increasing their earnings by employment at piece rates on special jobs such as potato or sugar beet lifting, but there are no statistics available to enable any precise calculation to be made of the average extra earnings over the country as a whole. In some districts the workers’ opportunities for such additional earnings are practically negli- gible, but in some of the arable areas where crops are grown which require a good deal of extra seasonal labour, the extra earnings may be considerable and yield many of the workers sums which would represent an appreciable addition to their normal weekly wages. Table 30 in the Appendix shows the average weekly wages of ordinary agricultural workers in England and Wales since 1914.

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