SCOPE AND METHOD
Proportion of Industry Represented

Data on earnings and hours of work were obtained from 36 hosiery
plants and for more than 10,000 hosiery workers. These constitute
12 per cent of the hosiery plants in the state and nearly one-fourth
of the hosiery workers.

Table 1. Proportion of Industry Represented*

Hoslery plants oem meee eee
EIDIOYeS meee eee eee

In state | In study

311
45,495

36
10.687

Proportion
in study

11.6
23.5

Type of hosiery plants studied

The hosiery plants studied are classified as full-fashioned and seamless
 according to the type of product manufactured. The process
of manufacture of the two types of hosiery is distinetly different as
are the general conditions of employment. The difference in employment
 conditions may be to some extent a reflection of the general industrial
 prosperity which obtains in the two types of hosiery manufacture,
 as the manufacture of full-fashioned hosiery is a growing,
prosperous industry while the manufacture of seamless hosiery is declining
 steadily .**
More seamless than full-fashioned hosiery plants were included in
the study, but the number of employes engaged in the manufacture
of full-fashioned hosiery was much greater than the number engaged
in the manufacture of seamless hosiery. In five plants both fullfashioned
 and seamless hosiery were manufactured, In most cases
the plant was engaged primarily in the manufacture of one type of
hosiery and carried on only finishing processes for the other type of
work. The classification of the hosiery plants studied is as follows :

Table 2. Type of Hosiery Plant

Type of plant

Pull-fashioned hOSIETY mumeme ooo ee eee eeeee
Pull-fashioned and seamless hoOSIOry ome coer
[23 GTLRD Tet 1)
—_———
DOB cements 35 mm tc AP 504 em

Plant

Number
Embploves

0
kb
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7,449
1,620
1,618
10 687

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*Pennsvivania Industrial Direstorvy. 109%

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