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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462 STUTTGART. employing most workpeople were the machine and metal industries, the textile industry (and especially the hosiery industry, which employs women for the most part), the group of industries engaged in wood, the several branches of the polygraphic industry (book printing, lithography, art printing, &c.), the clothing trade, and the paper industry. Appended is a return of workpeople employed in 1905 in the factories and workshops under inspection comprised in the Stuttgart factory district. This return includes, besides the town of Stuttgart, the adjacent incorporated towns of Cannstatt, Untertiirkheim and Wangen, which in April were added to the original factory district :— Group of Trades. Number ! of Establishments. Number of Workpeople. Building Mining and smelting Metal working Machine, implement and apparatus making Textiles Clothing and cleaning Printing, lithography, bookbinding, Ac. Paper ... ... ... ... ... Woodworking and carving Chemicals Resins, varnishes, oil, soaps, candles, &c Food, drink and tobacco Leather ... ... ... ... Art industrial products Total 45 24 148 186 43 335 86 46 151 12 11 227 20 1,339 731 747 3,095 10,755 3,090 4,464 3,760 1,646 3,160 334 420 2,553 434 47 35,236 It will be observed how large a proportion of workpeople fall to the metal and machine trades, viz., 13,845, or 39'3 per cent., against 27*3 per cent, before Cannstatt and Untertiirkheim were incorporated. To the textile trade fall 8’7 per cent, of the total against 9’2 per cent, before the factory district was extended, to the clothing and cleaning industry 12*6 per cent, against 13*3 per cent., to the wood industry 8*9 per cent, against 11’8 per cent., and to the printing and allied trades 10*6 per cent, against 14*9 per cent. Comprised in some of the foregoing groups of trades and industries are crafts in which Stuttgart has long excelled. The wood and carved goods group includes at least 1,500 men employed in the manufacture of pianos, some of which bear names of world-wide fame. The same group also comprises a number of firms engaged in the production of art furniture of a high class. Important glove and boot manufactories are included in the leather group, and the textile industry comprises many hosiery factories, in which the weavers and sewers (females) earn from 15s. to 18s. per week, with 21s. in exceptional cases. The engineering trade includes bridge building, boiler works, electro technical works, and general machine works ; the State Railway has a large construction and repairs works, while on the outskirts of the town, at Untertiirkheim, is the great Daimler motor-car manufactory, and at Cannstatt is a branch of the Esslingen machine works, almost as large as the parent establishment. The wages of skilled men in the engineering trade range in private works from 24s. to 36/?., while labourers earn 18s. Payment by piece is usual in all the important works. It is a general complaint in this industry that the supply of skilled labour is insufficient, in spite of the exceptional facilities for technical instruction which have been enjoyed in Wurtemberg for many years, and the larger works are more and more resorting to the practice of systematically training their own workpeople from the earliest stage of apprenticeship. There is a strong tendency for skilled men to desert the small for the large works, tempted in part by higher wages and the opportunity of doing work of a superior class, and this tendency, coupled with the check in the supply of labour, places the small works at a serious disadvantage. The great majority of the workpeople in the building trades are excluded from the foregoing return. The wages in these trades are in most cases fixed by agreements, payment being by the hour. It is a peculiarity of Stuttgart

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