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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372 MUNICH. Weekly Wages. Weekly Hours of Labour. Food, Drink, &c., Industries :■ Bakers, 1st men „ 2nd „ Beer brewing—brewers „ coopers „ draymen „ labourers Piano Manufactories :— Piano makers Cabinetmakers ... Labourers Glass Painting :— Designers Glaziers ... Painters ... Burners ... Miscellaneous Trades :— Rubber goods makers ... „ labourers Brick makers at presses „ labourers Carmen ... 30s. 3d 26s. 3d 36s. 31s. 6d 25s. 22s. to 23s. 36s. to 40s. 30s. „ 40s. 21s. „ 24s. 45s. to 48s. 27s. „ 34s. 45s. „ 48s. 30s. „ 45s. 20s. 5d to 25s. 2d 16s. lOd „ 19s. 2d 25s. 3d 16s. lOd 20s. to 25s. 84* 84* 644 to 65 60 60 60 54 54 54 48 to 54 48 „54 48 „ 54 48 „ 54 60 60 58 58 * Including intervals. Appended are the rates of wages and hours of labour of municipal employees at the same date :— Weekly Wages. Weekly Hours of Labour. Road Construction and Maintenance Foremen... Labourers Street Paving and Cleaning :— Foremen Sweepers and Labourers Depot labourers Gasworks :— Foremen... Stokers ... Labourers Waterworks :— Foremen... Labourers Electric Lighting and Power :— Engine-men Stokers ... Erectors ... Fitters ... Assistants 31s. lOd 19s. 2d to 24s. 31s. lOd 18s. to 24s. 19s. 2d „ 21s. 7d 28s. 6d to 34s. lOd 25s. 2d. „ 31s. 2d 19s. 2d „ 25s. 2d 33s. 7d 19s. lOd to 25s. 2d 23s. 8d to 30s. 21s. to 23s. 8d 22s. lOd to 29s. 8d 18s. 3d „ 29s. 8d 18s. to 22s. lOd 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 57 57 57 57 Tramways (private) :— Drivers Conductors 23s. Id 22s. 6d to 27s. 54 to 60 54 „60 Representing wages at Berlin by 100, the proportionate figures for Munich are—for the building trades, 85 for skilled men and 89 for labourers ; for the engineering trades, 83 for skilled men and 89 for labourers ; and for the printing trades, 94. Housing and Rents. Munich is essentially a town of large houses of the " barrack ” type and of small tenements, and this characteristic tends to become rather more pronounced than otherwise. The word house is here used, of course, in the German sense, as indicating an individual block of tenement dwellings, with its series of flats, and its front and back buildings as the case may be, in short, the entire structure which

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