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

Digitisation:: 2022

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entirely on the data for men and women engaged in the manufacture of hosiery. *** Chart 1. Employment and Wage Payment Index Numbers for the Hosiery Industry for the Years 1623-1928*% TI. 5 L) + or i ge AY sa USETA [524 EMPLOYMENT INDEX NUMBERS x = oy fiw Fra 1826 CA EY I. ra27 ot Aan WAGE FRAYMENT [INDEX NUMABLRS ool WITASONL 7928 *Pay period studied. *+“Employment Fluctuations in Pennsylvania,” J. Frederick Dewhurst, Special Bulletin No. 24, Department of Labor and Industry; and “Labor and Industry,” Department of Labor ind Industry, March 1928 to February 1929, ***Children under 16 were employed more generally In seamless than in fullfashioned hosiery plants. While two per cent of all workers in the 38 hosiery plants were children under 18 years of age, the majority of these children were employed in the miscellaneous group of counties where pearly one-fifth of the hosiery employes were under 16. In Northampton ounty, two per cent of the employes were under 18, in Philadelphia county, one per cent. Berks county had the lowest proportion of employed children, less than one per cent. The thildren were employed for the most part in the less skilled occupations of the finishing de- partments. Nearly three-fourths of the children worked less than 48 hours a week, includ- ng eight hours spent in continuation school. The median for children in full-fashioned hoslery was 47 hours, in seamless hosiery 39 hours. The median weekly earnings for children were $11.48 In full-fashioned hosiery and $6.20 in seamless hosierv

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