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

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30 (2) WoMEN Department Total number saturned Modal Grou of Monthly Earnings Number of workers in the Modal Group Percentage of the number in the group ko number returned Ra. Reeling oe Winding o . Ring Spinning .. . Mixing and Waste 394 269 37 ay 10 to 12 10 to 12 12 to 14 Relow 7 QQ = 48-45 28-25 37-84 83+23 134. The position of greatest density for all male operatives lies in “he group Rs. 18 to Rs. 20 with a modal average which works out at wbout Rs. 19. In the case of women the modal group is Rs. 10 to Rs. 12 with a modal average of about Rs. 11. For all adult operatives the mode is the sarae as that for men. In Sholapur only 1,005 or 26°71 per cent. of the total number of men returned earned more than Rs. 30. The number of women who earned more than Rs. 14 amounted to 54 or +67 ver cent. of the number returned. Earnings oF M11, Crrnrs 135. The average monthly earnings of different types of clerks ymployed in mill departments and offices attached to mills are shown for Bombay and Ahmedabad respectively in a table in Appendix D. Similar figures are not available for Sholapur because neither of the two mills included in the Enquiry at that centre supplied any information with regard to clerks. - No figures have been worked out for daily average earnings and average monthly earnings of full time workers, because all clerks are paid on a monthly basis without any deductions for absent davs.

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