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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304 LEIPZIG. Bookbindmg.—The standard time-wage for bookbinders, as stated in the Table, is 25s. for a week of 54 hours. The books of a firm employing 118 men of this trade, however, showed that the majority of these men earned 35s. per week of 54 hours in October, 1905. Woodworking Trades.—Cabinetmakers form one of the largest groups of skilled labour in pianoforte and music-box manufacture, and their standard time-wage is 25s. bd. for a week of 53 hours. The hours actually worked in the pianoforte trade are 53^, in which cabinetmakers on piece-work earn from 30s. to 40s. For men of the same trade employed in music-box manufacture the predominant piece-work earnings are from 30s. to 32s. in 54 hours. Weekly Wages. Weekly Hours of Labour. Building Trades* :— Bricklayers and Masons Stonecutters Carpenters Joiners Plumbers and Fitters .. Smiths (for Iron Work on Buildings) Glaziers : On Buildings... In Workshops Painters, skilled „ unskilled Labourers Fitters Turners -I Engineering and Metal-working Trades :— Machine Construction ... Paraffin Burner Manufacture ... Manufacture of Music Boxes, Typewriters and Motor Cars. Machine Construction ... Paraffin Burner Manufacture ... Smiths (Machine Construction) Founders (Paraffin Burner Manufacture) ... Drillers, Planers and Milling-Machinemen (Machine Construction). Patternmakers Typefounders Machine Construction ... Paraffin Burner Manufacture .. Labourers Textile Trades :— Worsted Yarn Spinners Wool Sorters Wool Combers ... Wool Dyers Storekeepers, Packers and Labourers Fur Dressing :— Furriers ... Labourers Pianoforte Making : — Instrument Makers Metal Workers ... Japanners Machinists Labourers Manufacture of Music Boxes, Typewriters and Motor Gars:— Mechanical Movement Makers Machinists Wheelwrights 32s. bd. 30s. to 32s. 32s. bd. 31s. 10(7. 27s. 24s. 4(7. 24s. 4(7. 29s. 8(7. 29s. 6(7. 26s. 23s. to 25s. 30s. to 33s. 35s. 30s. to 32s. 32s. „ 33s. 35s. 33s. to 35s. 30s. 32s. to 33s. 27s. „ 34s 30s. 6(7. f 18s. to 24s. 25s. 26s. to 28s. 22s. 6(7. 18s. 23s. 18s. to 21s. 30s. 21s. 30s. to 40s. 28s. „ 30s. 24s. „ 26s. 24s. „ 28s. 20s. „ 24s. 30s. „ 32s. 26s. „ 30s. 28s. „ 30s. 54 54 54 53 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 54 to 57 594 54 54 to 57 594 54 to 57 60 54 to 63 54 „ 57 54 57 to 60 594 62 to 65 62 to 65 65 65 62 to 65 60 60 534 534 534 54 54 54 * The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in summer. t Average weekly earnings in 1905.

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