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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OSCHERSLEBEN. 397 chief work of manufacturing has to be done between the end of September and Christmas. Thus one of these factories retains only 80 workpeople for the whole year, but employs 250 altogether in the season, whilst the other, which engages 150 during the season, retains only nine for the rest of the year. During the busy time work goes on. continuously in night and day shifts of 12 hours each, two hours being allowed for mealtimes in each shift. In the sugar industry the wages of labourers are lower than those paid in other industries because the " campagne ” occurs when these men, who are during the remainder of the year employed locally in the building trades and in the brick and tile works, would otherwise only have work at irregular intervals, and also because workers can be so easily obtained from Thuringia at low rates. Of two industries closely associated with the foregoing, one, that of the manufacture of sweets and chocolate, is carried on in a single factory employing 60 men and 120 women and girls, whilst the other, the making of sacks and of cloth for filtering purposes, is conducted in an establishment which employs almost exclusively female labour. . In the breweries the custom of “ free beer ” still obtains ; brewers receive from 7 to 8J pints daily and the other workmen from 5¿ to 7 pints. The men are not allowed to take any beer home, neither is compensation in money granted in case they do not drink the beer, but in general they are said to exercise their rights to the full. In the malt houses most of the men are only employed from September to May, and find work elsewhere during the remainder of the year, principally in the brick and tile making industry. Another important branch of industry is the manufacture of agricultural machines, of machines used in sugar factories, and of a patent pump much used in mines. Three small firms employing together several hundred men are engaged in this work. In the building trades comparatively few men are engaged, and no journeymen plumbers or plasterers are employed. The rates given below are for a full week in summer. In the printing trade the wages paid are the minimum rates fixed by the agreement which applies to the whole of Germany. A considerable number of residents are occupied in agricultural pursuits. The usual wages and hours of labour in the principal occupations are shown in the following Table :— Wages and Hours of Labour in the Principal Occupations, October, 1905. Trades. Principal Occupations. Weekly Wages. Weekly Hours of Labour. Building* Engineering < Goal (Lignite) Mining. Brick and Tile Printing Sugar ... Bricklayers and Masons Carpenters Joiners Painters Roofers Labourers ... Fitters Turners Drillers and Milling Machineme Smiths Patternmakers Labourers ... Hewers Trammers ... Furnacemen Burners Pressworkers Labourers ... Compositors Foremen ... Boilers Weighers ... Engine-room Hands Labourers 22s. Id. 21s. Id. 20s. 6d. to 23s. 9d. 26s. 5d. 18 s. 16s. 8d. to 17s. 10d. 27s. „ 30s. 25s. „ 30s. 20s. 27s. to 30s. 24s. „ 30s. 18s. „ 21s. 25s. 8d. 24 s. 30s. to 32s. 17s. „ 18s. 18s. „ 24s. 16s. 10¿ to 18s. 22s. 6(7. 29s. to 38s. 6(7. 26s. „ 27s. 8(7. 26s. 18s. 13s. 5(7. to 16s. 10(7. 60 66 66 60 59& 60 48 48 [ 60 to 72 j 54 60 * The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in summer.

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