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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ZWICKAU. success, so that except in the printing trade, in which the conditions of labour are governed by an agreement which covers practically the whole of the German Empire, there are no such things as standard rates of wages in Zwickau. Moreover, outside the building trades, practically all the skilled workpeople are employed on the piece-wage system, so that for purposes of comparison with the standard weekly rates obtaining in the United Kingdom it has been necessary ' to ascertain from employers’ pay-sheets the amount earned in a full week exclusive of overtime. The wages returned for the coal-mining industry have been furnished by the Association of Coalowners, which exists for the purposes of insuring the miners against accidents, ahd to which each of the affiliated coalowners is obliged to send in periodical statements of the time worked and wages earned by every insurable person employed in or about the mine. In this case, it should be added, the wages of any given group of workmen represent not, as in the other industries, the amount most frequently earned by the men in that group, but the average earnings, calculated by dividing the total wages bill for that group in 1905 by the total number of shifts worked in the same year. The resulting average earnings per shift is then multiplied by six to obtain the average earnings in a full week. This figure, however, represents the net earnings after deducting the statutory contributions (from 9d. to Is. per week) for sickness and old-age insurance, while in all the other trades the wages represent the gross amount, before making these deductions. The regular duration of the shift is 10 hours for pitmen and 12 for surfacemen as well as for the smiths, fitters, masons, carpenters, and stokers employed in and about the mines. The 10 and 12 hour shifts represent 9 and 10 hours of actual work respectively after deducting intervals for meals. Subject to the foregoing reservations, the figures in the following table may ' be taken as representing the predominant wages earned and usual hours of labour worked by adult workmen in a full week in the principal industries of Zwickau at October, 1905 :— Wages and Hours of Labour in the Principal Occupations, October, 1905. Predominant Weekly Wages. Usual Weekly Hours of Labour (exclusive of Meal Times). Building Trade** — Masons and Bricklayers Carpenters Painters Stucco Workers Labourers ... ' ••• Coal-mining:— Hewers Putters and Trammers Timberers Stokers Buddlers and Washers Steel Works .— First Men at Cupola Furnace ... Second Men at Cupola Furnace First Converter Men Second Converter Men First Founders , Second Founders Labourers... 1lolling Mills : — First Rollers Second Rollers First Furnacemen Second Furnacemen Catchers... Adjusters Labourers 24s. 22s. to 24s. 24s. . 24s. Id. » . 17s. . 20s. 15s. id. 20s. id. 19s. Id. 16s. 10(7. 49s. 31s. 49s. 36s. 42s. 36s. 21s. 45s. 42s. 55s. 39s. 31s. 24s. 17s. 60-65.V 60-654 60 60 60-65& 54 60 60 summer. The wages and hours of labour stated for the building trades are for a full week in 3 P S 29088

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