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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a6 percentage of men but the difference between the two percentages is not 10 striking as in Sholapur, the actual figures being 88-1 per cent. for women and 77-4 per cent. for men. Amount oF Bonus EARNED 147. Full information regarding the amounts of the bonus earned by workers in different departments and the average amounts paid is con- tained in the main tables. The figures for each of the three centres relate to the wage pericd covered at each centre. The difficulties in connexion with the two hapias in Ahmedabad which have been dealt with in several places ‘n this Report apply equally to the payment of the bonus and render the figures for Ahmedabad incomparable with those for Bombay and Sholapur. Owing partly to this and partly to the fact that all earnings from bonuses have been included in arriving at the final figures for average earnings and frequencies of earnings given in Chapter VII it is not considered necessary to burden this Report with summary tables and remarks with reference to the amounts of bonus sarned. The reader is therefore, referred to the main tables for anv ‘nformation that mav be required. ’ II.—Fines 148. As stated in the introductory Chapter full data were procured during the 1926 Enquiry in connexion with deductions from wages 01 earnings in respect of fines. The Government of India, however, asked all Local Governments, about the end of the year 1926, to institute enquiries with regard to the extent to which deductions are made from wages or payments in respect of fines in the industrial concerns in their respective administrations. The Labour Office of the Government of Bombay was asked by the Local Government to conduet the Enquiry in the Bombay Presidency. Full information for the first ten months of the year 1926 was collected from almost all mills at all centres of the Cotton Mill Industry and for the whole of the year 1925 for all other industries and concerns employing wage and salaried workers in the Presidency. A comprehensive Report containing the results of that Enquiry was published during the year 1928. Owing partly to this reason and partly to the fact that almost all the returning mills for the Wage Census gave no reasons for the fines inflicted and made no listinction between actual fines and deductions for spoilt material handed over to the workers it was decided not to tabulate the data returned under this head in the Wage Census. A note on the subject will be found in Appendix C.

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