Report on an enquiry into wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1827868163

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221455

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on an enquiry into wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926

Place of publication:: Bombay

Publisher:: Government Central Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: III, 172 S.; zahlr. Tab

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. Method of conducting the enquiry

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|] TE BcopPE AND CHARACTER OF THE ENQUIRY 16. The actual number of cotton mills in Bombay City in 1926 was 83 which number included the Turkey Red Dye Works of the E. D, Sassoon United Mills. The Millowners’ Association, Bombay, have recently excluded the Turkey Red Dye Works from their List of Mills in Bombay City which now stands at 82. Out of these 82 mills seven mills were not working in the month of July 1926. Two mills out of 59 mills in Ahmedabad City were not working in May 1926. All five mills in Sholapur City were working during the period of the Census for that centre. The following table shows the number of mills included in the Enquiry and the number of workers returned by the selected mills in comparison with the total number of working mills and the number of workers employed at each centre during the census month. The figures for the number of workers employed are based on information published by the Bombay Millowners’ Association :(— Centres of Enquiry [tems of Information Number of cotton mills working during the month selected for the Census Number of hands employed in the working mills _ Number of mills selected for the Census . o Number of hands returned by the se- lected mills .. ve ve Proportion of number of hands returned to number emploved Bombay Town| and Island Ahmedabad HB J 1.465.653 34.502 3 3M 50,421 16.392 Per cent, Per cent. 4B 20-32 Sholapur 18,003 4.783 Per cent. 26-33 A list of the mills that supplied information is given in Appendix A. AcE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORKPEOPLE COVERED BY THE CENSUS 17. The 1921 and 1923 Enquiries covered * big lads ” and children in addition to adult male and female operatives in all centres. For the purposes of the 1926 Enquiry no separate figures were called for for “ big lads ”’ not only because it was found that this term was a misnomer inasmuch as it covered all age groups but also because “big lads” work for the same number of hours as other adult operatives. With regard to children, no half-timers were employed in any of the nineteen mills selected for the 1926 Census in Bombay City. Figures for children were, however, returned for this Enquiry both from Ahmedabad and from Sholapur., The age and sex distribution of the number of operatives

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