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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484 ZWICKAU. Predominant Weekly Wages. Usual Weekly Hours of Labour (exclusive of Meal Times). Engineering and Metal Working :— ( Machine Making ; Automobile Manufacture 1 Miners’ Safety Lamp Manufacture '.Carriage and Van Works I Machine Making Automobile Manufacture Carriage and Van Works ( Machine Making ( Automobile Manufacture Í Machine Making Automobile Manufacture ( Carriage and Van Works Britannia Metal-ware Manufacture ... { Machine Making Automobile Manufacture Miners’ Safety Lamp Manufacture Carriage and Van Works Printing Trades :— Hand Compositors, Machine Minders and Pressmen. Fitters Turners Pattern makers Smiths ... Machine Compositors j j^^inf 20s. to 21s. 23s. 5d. 21 s. 20s. 22s. 28s. 26s. 21s. to 23s. 24s. 21s., 22s. 20s. 5d. 27s. 20s. to 24s. 16s. „ 18s. 16s. 15s. to 20s. 18s. 24s. 2d. 30s. 3d. 31s. 5d. 62-63 60 62 66 62-63 60 66 62-63 60 62-63 60 66 66-68 62-63 60 62 66 54 48 54 Pottery ware and Brickmaking Hollowware Makers Hollowware Makers (Assistants) Throwers... ... Drain-pipe Pressers Putters-in and Takers-out Clay pit Workers Brick and Tile Makers ... Earthenware Loaders ... Labourers... ... 36s. 28s. 6d. 27s. 22s. 24s. 20s. 21s. 18s. 14s. 5d 60 Porcelain Making :— Turners ... Painters ... Firemen 32s. 31s. 24s. 58-60 Sheet Glass Making :— Blowers ... Glassmakers Labourers ... 44s. 6d. to 62s. 4d. 20s. „ 30s. 17s. „ 20s. 39 39 66 From the above it can be seen that wages are very low ; even for skilled labour, wages of more than 30s. a week are quite exceptional and only to be found among certain select groups of men whose occupations require exceptional skill, combined, as a rule, with ability to bear severe physical strain, as for instance, the leading men at the furnaces and converters in steel 'works and rolling mills, the hollow-ware makers in pottery works, the turners in porcelain making, and the blowers in glass works. In the staple industry of this place —coal-mining—the best paid groups of pit labour—the hewers and timberers— earn no more than £l in a full week of six shifts on the average. Among fitters, turners, patternmakers and smiths in the engineering and cognate trades the majority do not earn more than 235. Most of the skilled men in pottery and porcelain making earn from 2Ls. to 27s., while in the printing trades machine compositors on newspaper work may be regarded as highly paid with 305. 3d. for 48 hours. Among unskilled labourers the best paid are those employed at the steel works at 215. for a full week. Elsewhere the wages of unskilled labourers in private enterprise range between 145. 5d. and 175. Taking wages at Berlin as 100, the corresponding figures for Zwickau are—for the building trades, 68 for skilled men and 66 for labourers ; for the engineering trades, 65 for skilled men and 78 for labourers ; and for the printing trades, 86.

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