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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Age and Sex Group All Adults Children All operatives Centre Bombay Ahmedabad Sholapur "Bombay Ahmedabad Sholapur Bombay Ahmedabad - Sholapur Number of workers returned Percentage absenteeism 50,4211 15,735 4.571 8-261 7-92 12:19 657 199 3-62 15-81 50,421+ 826+ 16,392 7-73 1.763 12-33 t+ The corresponding figures excluding women winders and reelers are 43,744— 7 per cent. The figures for women and adult operatives in the Bombay mills are again affected by the same factors which have already been dealt with ir: connexion with winders and reelers. If the 6,677 winders and reelers are excluded, the percentage absenteeism for the remaining 5,395 women workers amounts to 611 as against 11-86 for all female operatives. Similarly, if women winders and reelers are again excluded from the figures for ‘all adult operatives’ the final absenteeism figure for all the selected mills in Bombav is found to be 7 per cent. as against 3:26 per cent. 62. In the above table, consideration is given to the figures for percentage absenteeism from the viewpoint of aggregates for all depart- ments. If the figures are examined by individual departments it is found that absenteeism in Bombay was lowest ia the Engine and Boiler Department where it amounted to 2-43 per cent. Ramosees or the main group of workers in the Watch and Ward Section come next with 3-05 per cent. and then weavers with 4°36 per cent. Absenteeism was highest ir the Reeling Department where it amounted to 1780 per cent. Male workers in the Winding Department showed absenteeism amount- ing to 12-56 per cent. In both the Mule and the Ring Spinning Depart- ments it was slightly higher than 10 per ceat., the actual figures being 10-08 per cent. and 10-48 per cent. In the Drawing-in Department it wag a little more than eleven and a half per cent. 63. With the exception of Ramosees in the Watch and Ward Section there is little or no similarity in the departmental figures of percentage absenteeism at each of the three centres studied. Absenteeism for men in the Ring Spinning Department amounted to 7-33 per cent. in Ahmedabad and to 11-26 per cent. in Sholapur as against 10-48 per cent. in Bombay. [n the Drawing-in Department lost time amounted to 3-76 per cent. in Ahmedabad, to 11°55 per cent. in Bombay, and to 17-24 per cent. in Sholapur. It is unnecessary to comment on this point further as the figures in the detailed tables speak for themselves. As itis of interest, however, to consider the figures for the most important occupations among male and female operatives, in the same way as was done whilst

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