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 IV. Attendance and absenteeism

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and 49-65 for reelers. In Sholapur the corresponding percentages are 26°92 and 17-37 respectively. As between the two main groups of male workers, the percentages for the pumbers who worked full time among both spinners and weavers in Ahmedabad are about the same, mz., 50 per cent. In Sholapur, only 20-83 per cent. weavers worked full time as against 43-36 per cent. spinners. In Bombay, spinners appear to be much more irregular than weavers and the difference be- tween the two separate percentages is very striking—24°09 as againct 72:50. It is very frequently stated that it is not possible to work out accurate statistics for the attendance of weavers in Bombay because their absence is not recorded on the musters in view of the prevailing practice of the weavers paying their own substitutes. This may be true under ordinary normal circumstances but when the Census was conducted every mill included in the Enquiry was specifically instructed to keep separate registers for the month of July 1926 for recording not only the attendances of all weavers but also the earnings secured by single substitutes or by double substitute work. Eighteen out of the 19 mills did this. In the remaining mill which employed about 400 odd weavers the management reterned cent per cent. atterdance for all weavers. When subsequent enquiries were made into this it was reported that the attendance of the weavers was so good in the mill that it was not considered necessary to make special entries in separate musters. It was also stated that payment of wages had been made in all cases on the basis of a full 27 days work. 60. Tables Nos. VII to IX, printed at pages 84 to 89 show, by Departments, separately for men, women and all adult operatives, and in the case of Ahmedabad and Sholapur, for children and all operatives including children, the figures for percentage absenteeism t each centre. These percentages are worked out oa the basis of the aggregate number of days actually worked in relation to the aggregate of the possible man-days. No account is taken of “ Grace ” days. Frequency tables were not possible for these centres owing to the maximum ounber of working days varying from mill to mill, which would mean that 24 days represents the maximum in ove case and three days absence in another, 61. The following table summarises the position with regard to percentage absenteeism for different age and sex groups «t each centre :-— Age and Sex Group Men Women Centre "Bombay .. Ahmedabad .. Sholapur Bombay “ Ahmedabad .. Sholapur, Number of workers returned Percentage absenteeism 38,349 12,719 3,761 12,072* | 11-86% +3,016 7-40 810 10-81 TETTIT eei——— mn -— -— -— a —— * The corresponding figures excluding winders and reelers are 5,396—6- 11 per cent.

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