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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BREMEN. 99 Coming to miscellaneous industries and trades, wool-sorters receive from 20s. to 25s. weekly, wool-combers, 18s. to 19s. 2d., brewers, 29s., brewers’ bottlers and cellarmen, 24s., and brewers’ assistants and draymen, 25s. ; and bakers receive for 74 hours’ work 24s. and 22s. as first and second men respectively, these rates including 12s. charged as the equivalent of board and lodging, for the living-in system is general. In the printing trades the agreement rate for compositors, machine minders, and pressmen is 25s. 11(7., utb the actual rate paid is usually higher. The jute spinning and weaving industry is carried on almost entirely by female labour, but the best paid men receive 24s. to 80s., and ordinary labourers receive 15s. for a week of 60 hours. Ropemakers earn from 24s. to 24s. Id. for 66 hours. There is a considerable cigar industry in the town, but the, work done in the factories consists for the most part of sorting and packing, and the actual work of manufacture is done where labour is cheaper. Working by piece, sorters can earn from 19s. to 25s. per week of 60 hours and in exceptional cases even more. The municipality has retained in its hands all the usual public services, with the exception of the tramway system, which is worked by a Company, though a good deal of the municipality’s carting is done by contractors on yearly agreements. The rates of wages paid by the municipality depend on the years of service. The following were the predominant rates of wages in the principal trades and industries in October, 1905 :— Weekly Wages Weekly Honrs of Labour. Building Trades (agreement rates)* Bricklayers Carpenters Joiners ... Plumbers Glaziers ... Roofers ... Fitters ... Stucco-workers, in workshops „ on buildings Labourers Shipbuilding and Boiler-making Angle-iron Smiths Boilersmiths Ri vetters Caulkers Holders-up Boilersmith’s Labourers Other Labourers Engineering Trades :— Moulders Fitters ... Turners ... Smiths ... Patternmakers Labourers Textile Trades ;— Woolsorters Woolcombers ... Jute Weavers (Better men) Other Jute Workers ... Ropemakers Printing Trades:— Compositors, Machine-minders, and Press men. Machine Compositors—News „ „ Jobbing Bookbinders 38s. 9d. 33s. 9d. 27s. 6(7. 29s. 8d. 24s. 4d. 33s. 9d. 23s. 3d. 33s. Id. 35s. Id. 25s. 8(7. 24s. to 26s. 6(7. 25s. to 27s. 23s. „ 27s. 16s. to 22s. 10(7. 18s. „ 19s. 10(7. 18s. to 23s. 18s. „ 22s. 24s. to 25s. 25s. „ 27s. 26s. „ 30s. 25s. „ 33s. 22s. 10(7. to 24 s. 18s. to 21s. 20s. to 25s. 18s. to 19s 2(7. 24s. to 30s. 15s. 24s. to 24s. 7(7. 25 s. 11(7. 32s. 4(7. 33s. 8(7. 22s. to 25s. 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 60 60 60 60 60 60 60, 60 60 60 60' 00 6Ò 60 66 60 60 60 54 48 54 54 "The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in summer. 29088 N 8

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