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 VII. Earnings

Collection:: Economics Books

AVERAGE Dairy Earnings : 104. The following table gives the average daily earnings, by centres, for all adult male operatives, all adult female operatives, all children ind all adult operatives employed in the selected mills in the cotton mill ndustry at each of the three centres studied. In the yrevicus Reports ao figures were given for adult operatives but averages were given for all operatives by reckoning two half-timere (children) as one full-timer (an adult). Similar figures were not worked out for the 1926 Brquiry oecause the average daily earnings of adult male operatives were mcre than four times those of children both in Ahmedabad and in Sholapur and of women more than double in Ahmedabad and about two-thirds vs much in Sholapur. Average Daily Earnings of All Overaiives Average daily earnings for Jentre Bombay v3 Ahmedabad oe sholapur Vien 2s Pa . 0 1 8 0 | 1 6 8 | O05 Women Children Rs.’a. p 01111 | “ung 012 6 05 8 0 68 8 0 4 0 All adults Rs. a. p 1 5 3 1 4 3 O14 § AverAGE MoNtHLY EARNINGS OF ALL WORKERS 165. The average monthly earnings® of all workers in the selected alls at Bombay and Sholapur in the month of July 1926 in each age and sex group were as follows. As explained in paragraphs 30 and 35 the month in the case of the Bombay figures represents 27 davs and n Sholapur 26°7 davs. Average Monthly Earnings of All Workers Centres sex and Age Group Bombav Sholapur Ven ve ii . “ Women .. . 4] Children oe ee . All Adults ~ Rs. a. p. Rs. a. p. 37 10 2 | 23 15 6 17 12 4 | 9 15 7 oon » i 5 10 4 22 14 1 91 7 10 el SE A ED ET * The data worked out for Ahmedabad for average earnings in the two selected haptas ire not presented owing to the variations in the maximum number of working days in bhe two haptas as between mill and mill (vide paragraph 26). cerrado Pu

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