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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JLt-'Vl 290 KÖNIGS HUTTE. ai % g Group of Trades. Number oF Establishments. Number of Workpeople. Male. Female. Building ... ... ... ... ... Mining and smelting Metal working Machine, implement and apparatus making. Textiles Clothing and cleaning Printing, lithography, bookbinding, &c Paper Woodworking and carving Resins, varnishes, soap, oil, candles, etc. Stone and earth ... Food, drink and tobacco Total 203 176 4,492 666 1,959 16 502 123 21 8,178 891 Total. 192 4,994 666 1,960 9,069 In the above table trades are represented only in co far as they are carried on in establishments subject to inspection, and this largely affects the figures for some trades. In the building trades, for instance, the important groups of brick layers and labourers are omitted, nor is it possible to state even approximately the numbers employed in these two occupation groups. The great preponderance of the coal, iron and steel, and engineering trades, is shown by the fact that 7,620 of the total of 9,069 workpeople fall within the three groups in which those trades are comprised (¿.e., the second, third, and fourth groups in the table). The largest blast-furnace works in Silesia are situated within the town and in connection with these are puddling mills, steel-making (Bessemer, Thomas and Martin processes), iron and steel rolling mills and tube drawing works. There are also six pit shafts of state-owned collieries at work within the municipal area. The workpeople of Königshütte, being for the most part Polish and Roman Catholic in sentiment, have kept aloof from the German labour movement as represented by the great national federations of Social-Democratic Trade Unions (Gewerkschaften) which have gained a footing in every industrial town in other parts of the Empire. Strikes are extremely rare and collective agreements fixing standard rates of wages and other conditions of labour are unknown except in the printing trade, in which the men are organised in a branch of the National Federation of Printers and Typefounders. In the building trades, however, certain rates of time wages are recognised by the masters of the various trade guilds as locally current. The following table shows the rates of wages current in various building trades at October, 1905, together with the number of hours usually worked in those trades per week in summer. The minimum rates for the printing trade as fixed for Königshütte by the general agreement operative throughout the greater part of Germany are also shown. Predominant Weekly Rates of Wages. Usual Weekly Hours of Labour (exclusive of Mealtimes). Building Trades* :— Masons and Bricklayers. Carpenters Joiners Plumbers Painters (Fine work) „ (Rough work) Labourers Printing Trades :— Hand Compositors ... ) Machine minders and pressmen \ Machine Compositors j 22s. Id. 22s. Id. 27s. 0 d. 19s. 2d. 22s. lOd. 21s. Od. 15s. Od. 23s. 8d. 29s. 6d. 30s. 9d. 54 The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in summer,

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