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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DRESDEN. 191 case of two very important groups of trades—clothing and building—work is for the most part carried on under conditions which exclude these trades from the factory inspectors’ yearly enumerations, so that only a rough estimate can be formed of their relative importance from the data obtained on the occasion of the general industrial census of 14th June, 1895. According to that census there were in Dresden 6,806 persons employed in garment making, 3,600 in boot and shoemaking, and 16,000 in the building trades, and these numbers would have been considerably greater if they had included the establishments situated in the out-lying parishes which have since been brought within the municipal area of Dresden. General agreements between organisations of employers on the one hand and of workpeople on the other, fixing conditions of labour, exist for practically the whole of the building trades, as well as for the printing and brewing trades, and for coppersmiths and carters. From copies of these agreements it has been possible to compute the predominant rates of wages for competent workmen in the trades concerned, since provision is in all cases made for the rate of wages to be paid per hour, day, or week, as well as for the number of hours consti tuting the working week. In the other branches of private industry carried on in Dresden, owing to the opposition of the employers, no advance whatever has yet been made towards the regulation of working conditions by collective agreements. In the case of these trades, therefore, the data regarding wages have had to be obtained from the pay-sheets of the principal industrial estab lishments, and as the majority of the operatives in these establishments are paid on the piece-work system, the weekly rate represents as a rule the earnings for a full week without working overtime. It is also to be noted that in some of the most important of the local industries—more especially the cigarette, chocolate, sweet, condensed milk, and photographic paper industries—the bulk of the operatives are women and girls, so that the wages given below, being those of adult males only, cannot be regarded as typical for the trades in question. Wages and Hours of Labour in the Principal Occupations, October, 1905. Weekly Wages. Building Trades* :— Bricklayers and Masons Hod Carriers Carpenters Joiners ... Stone-cutters Stucco-workers Paperhangers Plumbers Painters ... Labourers (other than Hod Carriers) 29s. 7d. 32s. Qd. 31s. 2d. 24s. 5d. 27s. to 28s. 27s. 6d. 23s. 2d. Metal and Engineering Trades :— Machine Construction :— Moulders Fitters ... ••• • «• Turners ... Planers ... Pattern-makers... Labourers Manufacture of Kitchen Fittings : Tinsmiths Fitters ... Turners ... Metal Stampers Varnishers Japanners Labourers Manufacture of Photographic Apparatus Joiners ... Case-makers Unskilled workpeople Coppersmiths 30s. to 35s. 25s. „ 27s. 27s. „ 30s. 23s. 28s. 27s. 31s. 30s. 30s. 27s. 26s. 18s. 24s. Weekly Hours of Labour. 58 50 52 52 58 55 58 58-60 58-60 58-60 58-60 58 58 58 58 58 52 52 52 60 * The wages and hours oí labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in summer.

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