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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454 STETTIN. Weekly Wages. Weekly Hours of Labour. Chemical Trade:— Skilled men ... ... ... ... ... 25s. to 50s. Unskilled men (the great majority) ... 18s. „ 20s. Pottery, etc., Trades :— Cement makers ... ... ... ... 19s. 2d. Fireclay wares : Brickmakers ... ... ... ... 28s. 6r/. Retort stampers ... ... ... ... 22s. Special or form block stampers ... 26s. 9d. • Mixers and preparers ... ... ... 26s. 11 d. Barrow wheelers (emptying and filling 27s. id. kilns). Labourers ... ... ... ... ... 16s. 6d. Food Trades :— Sugar refining : Sugar boilers ... ... ... ... 24s. 6c/. Labourers ... ... ... ... ... 17s. 5d. Brewing : Maltsters ... . ... ... ••• 23s. Id. Brewers ... ... ... ... ••• 30s. Coopers ... ... ... ••• ••• 26s. Draymen ... ... . ... . • 36s. Labourers ... ... ... ... ..; 18s. to 20s. Bakers ... ... ... ... ... ... 17s. „ 18s. Cigar making ... ... ... ... ... 17s. Id. to 19s. Municipal Employees :— Road construction and maintenance : Paviors ... ... ... ... ... 33s.. Rammermen ... ... ... ... 19s. 2d. Road makers ... ... ... ... 19s. 10í7. Street cleaners ... ... ... ... 18s. 10r/. Gasworks : Gas stokers ... ... ... ... 24s. Id. Yard labourers ... ... ... ... 19s. 2d. Waterworks : Engine and boilermen 30s. M. Labourers *... ... ... ... ... 17s. 10r/. Electricity works and Electric lighting : Enginemen • ... ... ... ... 21s. Id. Stokers ... ... ... ... ... 19s. 2d. 65-70 70 60 60 60 60 57& 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 72 58 60 60 60 63 78* 72* 84 60 60 60 Including intervals. Comparing the wages for the building, engineering and printing trades shown in the above table with the corresponding figures for Berlin, and representing the latter by 100, the following index numbers are obtained :— For the building trades, 79 for skilled men and 67 for labourers ; for the engineering trades, 71 for skilled men and 83 for labourers ; and for the printing trades, 90. The data obtainable with regard to dock and riverside labour and the tailoring and ready-made clothing trades were too fragmentary to warrant their use as a basis for calculating predominant weekly rates of wages for those trades. The agreement in force between the stevedores and the association of ship owners, brokers and agents of Stettin, while providing for a time-rate of wages {Id. per hour for day work and 9d. per hour for night work) contains no stipu lation limiting the daily or weekly duration of work, and consists for the most part in a detailed statement of the rates per ton to be paid for loading and dis charging various kinds of merchandise. The pay-sheets of one of the leading firms of shipowners showed that 66 men employed by the firm during the month of October, 1905, worked an average of 22 days each, their average earnings per day (piece-work) being 8s. 3d. The average stevedore in Stettin, it was stated, earns, on time-work, from £60 to £75 a year by working four or five days per week all the year round for a regular line of steamships. The best stevedores, working 12 hours (nett) per day for 240 days in the year, earn on piecework £115.

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