of work could be secured also was greater in some occupational classifications
 than in others. However, with the exception of men in the
legging department and women in the seaming and mending departments,
 the proportion of full-fashioned hosiery employes whose hours
of work were recorded was never less than one-half. In the seamless
hosiery industry, men machine fixers constituted the only occupational
group in which hours of work were reported for more than one-half
of the employes. (Appendix Table II).
Weekly hours of employes

The hours actually worked by the men and women in the hosiery
industry were very often not the same as the hours scheduled. The
48 hour week which was scheduled for 42 per cent of the hosiery
employes was actually worked by only nine per cent. No hosiery employe
 was scheduled to work less than 44 hours a week, yet in the week
studied 11 per cent of the men and 24 per cent of the women in the
full-fashioned hosiery plants and 15 per cent of the men and 54 per
cent of the women in the seamless hosiery plants worked less than 44
hours. (Chart 3). Men worked longer hours than women. In the
full-fashioned hosiery plants 58 per cent of the men worked more than
54 hours a week, although only 36 per cent had scheduled hours of more
than 54. In the seamless hosiery industry, where eight per cent of
the men had scheduled hours in excess of 54, 17 per cent worked more
than 54 hours in the week studied.
Actual working hours were longer in the full-fashioned hosiery industry
 than in the seamless hosiery industry. Twenty per cent of the

Chart 3. Actual Weekly Hours of Men and Women
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