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

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Chapter VII. Earnings

Collection:: Economics Books

Ny show that only 55 or 1°89 per cent. of the total number of 2,908 reelers returned were men. The piece rate is the predominant basis of pay- ment. In Bombay there were only three reelers on purely time rates, 1,906 were on piece rates and 135 were on combined time and piece rates. In Ahmedabad 2 male and b female reelers were on time rates and 52 men and 424 women were on piece rates. In Sholapur the solitary male recler returned received a fixed wage and only 14 out of 380 female reelers returned were on time rates. The following table sets out the numbers returned in each group and their average earnings— {aily, monthly and full time—at each of the three centres covered by the Enquiry with the exception of monthly earnings for Ahmedabad :— Earnings of Reelers vex (rroups and Basis +f Pavment Men —-Time -. Men~—Piece .. Women—1Time Women—Pisce Women—Time and Piece. Centre Ahmedabad. Sholapur ..! Ahmedabad. Bombay .. Ahmedabad. Sholapur .. Sombay .. Alimedabad Sholapur .. | Bombay ..| Averace Earnings Total number returned Number working full time Average monthly parnings of fuil time workers ¥ Daily | Monthly Rs. a. D». Rs . . | Rs. u. p. l22 3 6 25 65 0 2 1 013 Z| .. 0 9 011214 1 i015 O A9 3 5 14 0 711 0 9 7 vy © 1p 9 "13 8 0 i6 2.9 1,806 424 366 3886 19 5 5 24 5 3 11 711 511 25 66 185 0 99 9 1 * For reasons already given, the Ahmedabad figure represents 27 times the daily sarnings. For Sholapur the month = 267 days. 124, The disparity of average daily earnings in the predominant group, i.e, women reelers on piece rates as between Bombay and Ahmedabad is noticeable. Enquiries were made and it was found that women reelers in the Bombay mills, in addition to working on the basis of a rotation of employment, worked systematically shorter hours than the usual in several mills during the period of the Census. The shorter hours worked were not recorded in the returns because for purposes of the muster, all women who were allowed to leave at 3 p.m, or 4 p.m. instead of at 5 p.m. as they normally do, were marked “ present ” for the days on which they were not entirely absent, (6) Slubbing, Intermediate and Roving Frame Tenters 125. Owing to the complications in the basis of payment it is only possible to present in summary form the earnings in this Department for

Access restriction

Copyright

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

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation