Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XII. - The income of the industrial worker

Collection:: Economics Books

206 CHAPTER XII. ” Expenditure. Some indication of the standard should be obtainable by a different approach, namely from that of the relative expenditure on various items and particularly necessities. Here again the material is very defective. In a number of the enquiries that have been made, workers whose families were away in the villages have been group- ed with workers whose families were with them in the towns, and few en- quiries have given particulars of the absent dependents and of the re- mittances to them. There are, however, two investigations which are valuable in this connection, namely those made into family budgets in Sholapur and Ahmedabad by the Bombay Labour Office in 1925 and 1926. These relate to groups of families whose absent dependents formed a negligible fraction of the whole. In the Sholapur enquiry, the average number in the family was 4-68 persons and of this +11 persons were absent dependents, while 4-57 persons lived in the family. In the Ahmed- abad enquiry, the corresponding figures are 4-00, +13 and 3-87. We append particulars of the expenditure on different items. [tems. “ood— Cereals .. wo Pulses ro - Sugar and sweet meats Meat .e oe Milk and ght ve Vegetables and fruit Oils ‘i “i Salt ve . Condiments ot Tea "se 4 Other Food items » . E . Total Food Fuel and lighting is . Clothing Pe ow oe Bedding and household necessities House rent .. . £ Hair-cutting, washerman and soap Tobacco aie an +3 Liquor - .. Travelling to and from native place Interest on debts aw oe Miscellaneous .. .e 4a Total . Sholapur. Average monthly expendi- ture. Percent. age tn total [: 5 I 1 110 | 1 4 ¢ 015 2 1 0: 0 3 r IL 4 f J 01 0 B 5 Se 0 25-00 3:50 2-80 4-31 3-41 2-50 2-85 0:61 3-43 0-15 0:80 18 10 B 40.95 3 Iv 2 4 710 0 6 1 2 8 ( 0 12 1¢ 0 9 ¢ 013 ¢ 9-60 11-86 1-00 6-27 2:12 1:60 2:27 1-73 $5.65 1-65 - 7 00-00 Ahmedabad, Average monthly sxpendi- ture. Percent- age to total. Rs. A. 11 11 11 1 7 ¢ 015 % 014 1 3 6 1 111 1} 011 1( 0 1° 011 ¢ 0 2 ¢ 0 14 10 20-84 3:73 2-47 2-24 8-59 4-30 1-88 0-25 1-87 0-37 2.98 292 12 % 57-90 212 «¢ 311 ¢ 0 7 ¢ 4 91] 015 * 1 2 ¢ 0 8 ° 7-04 9-45 1-16 11-74 2:50 2:97 1-39 1-50 4-35 100-00 an Unfortunately, the statistics are not exactly comparable, for in Ahmedabad. where the workers are stated to be heavily indebted,

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