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 VIII. Bonus and fines

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£ 2) Ahmedabad Total number Returned .. Number covered by Bonus Schemes. dercentage of - Bay covered to number returned. Jumber who secured thel Bonus. Yercentage of those vil secured Bonus to number returned. ercentage of those whol secured Bonus to number covered. Vien 12,719 9.108 71-6 8,568 674 24-1 | Women 3,016 9 396 77-1 2.165 71:8 08-1 Adult operatives 15,735 I'l.432 727 10,733 68:2 03-9 Children 657 527 R02 523 79-6 099-2 All operatives 16,392 11,959 73-0 11,256 68-7 04-1 AEE Ar '3Y Sholapur Total number Returned | Number covered by Bonus Schemes. Percentage of | covered to number returned. Number who secured the Bonus. Percentage of those who secured Bonus to number returned. Jorcentage of those who secured Bonus to number covered. \Tenn 3,761 1.619 430 R03 214 £96 | Women Adult yperatives 810 677 4,571 2 906 83:6 50°92 658 1,461 21-7 R12 97-2" 63-6 | Children 192 192 100-0 192 100 CG 1060-0 All operatives 4,763 2.488 52-92 1,663 34-7 66-4 146. Tt will be seen from the above tables that whereas 73 per cent. Jf the total number of operatives returned were covered by bonus schemes in the Ahmedabad mills, 52-2 per cent. were covered in Sholapur and only 37 per cent. in Bombay. Out of the numbers sovered 94°1 per cent. earned the bonus in Ahmedabad as against 79-9 oer cent. in Bombay and 664 per cent. in Sholapur. Among different sex and age groups cent per cent. of the children returned and covered nn Sholapur and 99-2 per cent. of the children covered in Ahmedabad were paid bonus. Women in Sholapur come next with 97-2 per cent. nd men and women in Ahmedabad follow very closely with 94-1 per sent. and 93-1 per cent. respectively. It is significant that whereas 37-2 per cent. of women covered in Sholapur earned the bonus, only 19-6 per cent. of the men covered were able to get it. The percentage Jf women who earned the bonus in Bombay was greater than the vo B 360

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