Hours and earnings of men and women in the hosiery industry

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Identifikator:: 183162205X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221554

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Title:: Hours and earnings of men and women in the hosiery industry

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Year of publication:: [1930]

Scope:: 119, [1] Seiten

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The occupational classifieation for full-fashioned and for seamless hosiery manufacture has been kept separate even for plants where both types of hosiery were maufactured. The occupational classifica- tion varied most in the knitting processes, as the finishing processes are similar for both types of hosiery. The occupations peculiar to full-fashioned hosiery manufacture are the knitting processes, foot- ing, legging, and the so-called knitting helpers. Occupations found exclusively in seamless hosiery manufacture are rib knitting, string knitting, pressing, raveling, separating tops, and splice cutting, The occupational classifications eommon to both types of hosiery manu- facture are boarding, dyeing, examining, looping, machine fixing, maintenance, mending, packing, pairing, seaming, sorting, topping, winding, and other. In ‘‘other’’ are included miscellaneous occupa- tions such as shipping and floor help. Geographical distribution The manufacture of hosiery, carried on for the most part in the eastern section of the state, tends to concentrate in Philadelphia county where 36 per cent of all hosiery plants in the state and 45 per cent of the workers are located. Berks county is the next most important center, with 23 per cent of the plants and 28 per cent of the employes. The county areas, used in this study as a basis for geographical classification, were selected because of their importance both as manu- facturing and as market centers, Table 3 shows the proportion of plants and employes studied in each district * Table 8. Hosiery Plants and Emvloyes by Geographical District Geographical district Philadelphia county ......____..____ Berks county ae... Northampton county oo... Other counties —ammce reenter ee——— TOtAl eo In atntate | Number of plants ) Number of employes Tn state** In study 20,568 12,515 2,427 9.915 4,186 8,804 1,488 1,781 10,687 | 14 R. 45 495 The full-fashioned hosiery industry is centered in Philadelphia, and more than one-half of the full-fashioned hosiery plants considered in this study were located in this area. Table 4 gives the distribution of the hosiery plants studied by type of product and geographical lo- cation. ee eee — em *The Industrial Directory does not elagsity hosiery plants by type of product. - possible, therefore, to show the proportion of full-fashioned and seamiens Bi Slants studied to the number of full-fashioned and seamless hosiery plants in the state. “Pennsylvania Industrial Directory. 1928

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