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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[52 TaBLE 30. Average Wages and Index Numbers of Agricultural Wages. (See Chapter VIIL.) hd ™ JR RAT Jr “1 Period. 1914 - - August, 1917 - - First Wages Board Period :— July, 1918-May, 1919 May, 1919-April, 1920 April, 1920—-August, 1920 August, 1920-August, 1921 September, 1921 - - Conciliation Committee Period 1922 . - 1923 - - 1924 - - - - Second Wages Board Period :— 1925 . 3 8 ATR A Average Weekly Wages. 8. d. 18 0 25 0 30 6 37 10} 43 0} 16 10% 19 3 31 3 28 0 28 (© 30 11 Percentage increase compared with pre-war position. 39 69 110 139 160 135 4 56 56 7) Norrs. For the purpose of the above Table the average wage of agricultural workers in 1914 has been taken at 18s., made up of 16s. 9d., which is estimated to have been the average cash earnings of ordinary agricultural male workers, and 1s. 3d., which is estimated as the average value of the allowances in kind received by such workers. No particulars can be given of the changes in wages between 1914 and 1917 when the minimum wage of 25s. was established by the Corn Production Act. The figures with which the wage of 18s. in 1914 are compared, so far as the period of the first Wages Board is concerned, are the average minimum wages for ordinary workers in force at various periods. During the period of the Conciliation Committees, when no minimum rates were in force, the figures given are those which are believed to have been the average obtaining throughout the country in each year. After the establishment of the second Agricultural Wages Board, the minimum wage for ordinary agricultural workers has again been taken for the purpose of comparison. No allowance has been made for the regular extra earnings of the special classes of workers (4.e., horsemen, stockmen, shepherds, &c.), nor has any allowance been made for additional earnings on harvest and other seasonal work. Were such allowance made the average wages would no doubt be higher throughout, but it is not likely that any great difference would be made in the comparative index numbers given in the above Table. In calculating the jndex numbers no account is taken of the changes which have taken place in the hours of work; whilst information with regard to the average hours of work of agricultural workers before the war is somewhat vague, it, appears probable that the number of hours for which the pre-war wage of 18s. wag payable was somewhat in excess of the average hours on which the present minimum rates are based. £ % view Printed under the authority of His Majesty’s Stati By Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., East Harding Street, BO. 4 ‘ Printers to the King’s most Excellent Maiestv a a

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