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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LEIPZIG. 305 Weekly Wages Weekly Hours of Labour. Woodworking Trades :— Furniture Making : Cabinetmakers and Polishers Turners Parquet-layers Wheelwrights Food, &e. Trades :— Journeyman Bakers (employed by Co operative Societies). Brewing : Brewers and Coopers Draymen (Bottled Beer) ... „ (Cask Beer) Assistant Draymen Enginemen and Stokers Labourers (over 20 years of age) Printing Trades:— Hand Compositors Machine Minders Pressmen ( News | Jobbing Machine Compositors Music Printers Stereotypers Electrotypers Engravers Etchers ... Retouchers Bookbinding :— Binders Pressers and Operatives at Cover-making Machines. Warehousemen and Porters in Bookselling Trade 25s. 5d. 23s. 10 d. 35s. 8d. 24s. 4c?. 25s. 2d. 28s. to 30s. 27s. 23s. to 25s. 21s. „ 23s. 22s. „ 24s. 20s. ,, 22s. 27s. 33s. 9d. 35s. M 20s. to 24s. 27s. „ 33s. 30s. Id* 39s.* 32s. lid* 32s. Id* 25s. 33s. 6d 18s. to 25s. 53 53 51 54 52 60 60 60 60 60 60 54 48 54 54 54 54 481 521 521 54 54 60 to 66 Average weekly earnings in 1905. Wages are comparatively very high in Leipzig—much higher than in any other town in Saxony. Representing wages in Berlin by 100, the corresponding figures for Leipzig are—for the building trades, 88 for skilled men and 95 for labourers ; for the engineering trades 95 for skilled men and 96 for labourers ; and the printing trades 96. By way of concluding this section of the report a few particulars are added as to the conditions of labour of municipal workers. So far as employment of labour is concerned the most important of the services undertaken by the municipality of Leipzig is that of the gas supply, including street lighting by gas. The total number of workpeople employed in this service at the end of 1905 was 661, divided into four wage classes. The first and best paid class comprises the stokers in the retort houses and a small number of the more experienced artisans (masons, carpenters, pipe-layers). The scale of pay for this class ranges from 4s. Id. per day in the first to 5s. 2d. after the fourth year of service ; that is to say, from 27s. Qd. to 31s. per week, and it may be assumed that the majority of those employed at any given time would be men who have completed four years of service and reached the maximum rate of their scale. The stokers in the retort houses only work 45 minutes to an hour at a stretch, after which they rest for an hour to an hour-and-a-quarter, so that of the 12 hours during which they are on duty in the retort house their time of actual work at the furnaces only amounts to four-and-a-half to six hours daily. Stokers are required to bring two shirts every day besides the one in use, so as to be able to change after each spell of work at the furnaces. Coffee and warm shower baths are provided free at the works, and few if any of the men neglect to avail themselves of the latter at the end of their shift. The second wage-class comprises the general body of skilled artisans and the leading men in the ammonia factory. The wages range from 4a. 2d. to 29088 2 Q

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