Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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BARMEN. 69 The following Table shows the predominant wages and usual hours of labour per week in Barmen at October, 1905 :— Wages arid Hours of Labour in the Principal Occupations, October, 1905. Weekly Wages. Weekly Hours of Labour. Building Trades* :— Bricklayers and Masons Carpenters Plumbers Stucco Workers Painters... ... Labourers Engineering Trades :— Moulders ... Fitters ... ... ... ... ... ... Turners Patternmakers Labourers Boiler Making :— Angle-iron Smiths Caulkers Ri V otters ... ... ... ... ... Holders-up Textile Trades :— Ribbon Weaving Trimmings Manufacture Elastic Webs, Laces, Cords and Braids— Weavers Other ... ... ... ... ... ... Carpet Weaving Dyeing, Finishing, Glazing, Mercerising, etc. Breweries :— Skilled Workmen Labourers Printing Trades :— Hand Compositors, Machine Minders, and Pressmen. Machine Compositors, Jobbing Do. Newspaper Work ... Miscellaneous Trades :— Pianoforte Making : Makers ... Machine Tenters Labourers Manufacture of Buttons and Buckles Paper Envelope Making Muncipal Employees :— Road Making : Unskilled Men ... Skilled Men (Surveyors’ Assistants) Gasworks : Stokers ... Labourers Waterworks : Labourers Electric Lighting and Power Supply : Mechanics, Stokers, Installers and Fitters 30s. 30s. 8c/. 24s. 35s. lid. 20s. to 24s. 27 s. 22s. 10i7. 27s. Gd. to 29s. 35s. to 36s. 30s. 27s. 20s. to 22s. 40s. 32s. to 35s. 35 s. 24s. to 25s. 24s. to 28s. 22s. „ 27s. 28s. „ 30s. 21s. „ 22s. 28s. 19s. Gd. to 22s. Gd. 24s. to 27s. 22s. 24s. 9d. 32s. 2d. 30s. 11c/. 24s. to 30s. 20s. 18s. 21s. to 24s. 21s. 6c/. 15s. to 21s. 24s. 27s. 21s. 27s. 24s. 60 59 57 57 54 60 60 58% to 60 58% „60 58% „60 58% ,,60 58%,, 60 60 60 60 60 58% to 60 58%,,60 58%.,60 58% ,, 60 58% 58% to 60 Mechanics, Stokers and Draymen, 72, Others, 60, 54 54 48 54 54 60 56 to 59 61 60 60 51 60 60 65 * The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in summer. m connection with the figures in the above Table the following remarks relating to certain occupations should be noted. Building Trades.—The wages and hours of painters as fixed by agreement are 27s. for a week of 60 hours, but from 20s. to 24s. for a week of 54 hours is the rate frequently paid.

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