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

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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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV. Attendance and absenteeism

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7 CHAPTER IV Attendance and Absenteeism 54. Tables I to III printed at pages 68 to 77 of this Report show, by departments, separately for men, women and all adult operatives, the frequencies of attendance of cotton mill workers in nineteen represen- tative mills in Bombay City for the month of July 1926. The figures, in all cases, are in relation to 27 working days in the month. Similar tables have not been prepared for Ahmedabad and Sholapur because a8 explained in a previous chapter the number of working days in the wage periods selected for those centres were not uniform in all the mills covered by the Enquiry at each centre. The main point of interest of such tables is the proportion of those who worked full-time, 5.e., without any absence during the wage period, to the number of workers returned. Tables IV to VI, printed at pages 78 to 83 show, by departments, separately for men, women, and all adult operatives, the number. of workers returned, the number who worked full-time and the percentage of full-time workers to numbers returned at each centre. 55. In the mills in Bombay, out of a total number of 38,349 men returned, 20,144 or 52-53 per cent. worked throughout the Census month without any absence, i.e., for 27 days. Six thousand and ninety-eight or 15-90 per cent. worked for 26 days and 3,696 or 9:64 per cent. for 25 days. About 31 per cent. lost from one to three days and a little over sixteen per cent. lost four days or more. Among women workers, the figures of attendance were affected both by voluntary absence and by rotation of employment owing to some mills retaining, at the request of the workers concerned, more women winders and reelers than were actually required. As the individual mills which arranged for rotation of employment did not report or give any indication as to the number of days for which individual winders or reelers were stood off and the numbers of days not worked on account of voluntary absence, it isnot possible to determine the effect which each of these causes had on the attendance of women workers. Qut of 12,072 women returned for Bombay, 3,968 or 32-87 per cent. worked for 27 days or without any absence, 2,648 or 21 94 per cent. for 26 days and 1,384 or 11-46 per cent. for 25 days. As compared with 31 per cent. for men, 41 per cent. of the women workers returned lost one to three days. The percentage of those who lost four days or more was 26-08 as compared with 16°40 for men. If the figures are considered from the viewpoint of all operatives (adults only in this case as no children were employed), 24,112 workers out of a total number of 50,421 returned or 47°82 per cent. worked for 27 days, 8,746 or 17°35 per cent. for 26 days and 5,080 or 10-07 per cent. for 25 days. One-third of the total number of workers covered by the Enquiry lost from one to three days and about one-fifth lost four days Or more.

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