Wages And Hours Of Labor Series

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... 12 7.................. I 1 17 11 D.................. l 1 W 6.. 1 19 12 5.. 18.. 0............ 22 95 3 10 91 (1) 2 21 (I) 2 14......... 1 15..... 1 12..... 2 M....... 1 95 12 TABLE 1.-AVERAGE AND CLASSIFIED FULL-TIME HOURS PER WEEK AND EARNINGS PER HOUR, AND AVERAGE FULL-TIME WEEKLY EARNINGS 1-A TABLE 1.-AVERAGE AND CLASSIFIED FULL-TIME HOURS PER VVEEK AND EARNINGS PER HOUR, AND AVERAGE FULL-TIME WEEKLY EARNINGS IN THE PRIN(1P.L OFCU PATIONS, BY YEARS-Concluded. 16 WAGES AND HOURS OF LABOR_VOOLEN AN D WORSTED GOODS. As wages and hours differ in different establishments, the inclusion or exclusion of any establishment in a group may raise or lower the average for the group, so that exact comparisons can be made between the actual wages and hours shown for different years only where the data for the several years are from identical establishments. To illustrate: In the fifth column of Table 1 it is seen that in 43 establishments the full-time weekly earnings of burlers increased from $7.36 in 1911 to $8.22 in 1912. In 44 establishments there was a decrease from $8.25 in 1912 to $8.13 in 1913. It would not be a proper comparison, however, to state that weekly earnings had increased from $7.36 in 1911 to $8.13 in 1913, because of the change in the number of establishments and of the difference in the average for 1912 in the two groups of establishments. To aid in making comparisons where the establishments change more or less from year to year, relative or index numbers have been computed for full-time hours per week, hourly earnings, and full-time weekly earnings for each selected occupation, for the years 1910 to 1918, inclusive. These relative numbers, which are based ori the averages in Table 1, are shown in...