Wages and Hours of Labor Series Volume 24-25

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...106 109 110 104 103 102 102 98 100 96 95 95 97 109 101 98 100 100 95 97 93 96 99 97 99 100 100 103 100 101 10) 98 100 99 100 100 100 100 99 100 103 99 103 103 101 101 100 100 100 The relative full-time weekly earnings for all occupations of the department combined in 1907 were 96 as compared with 100 in 1915. In other words, the full-time weekly earnings in 1907 were 96 per cent of those in 1915. The relative dropped to 88 in 1908, advanced to 93 in 1909, and to 98 in 1910, dropped in 1911 to 93, advanced in 1912 to 100, and in 1913 to 111, and dropped to 96 in 1914. In 1915, the base year, the relative was 100. These relative numbers for each year previous to 1914 are based on the principal productive occupations only, but those for 1914 and 1915 include also the unclassified groups tabulated for 1914 and 1915 for the first time. The next column shows that full-time weekly earnings in 1915 were 4 per cent higher than in 1907, 14 per cent higher than in 1908, 8 per cent higher than in 1909, 2 per cent higher than in 1910, 8 per cent higher than in 1911, the same as in 1912, 10 per cent lower than in 1913, and 4 per cent higher than in 1914. FULL-TIME WORKING DATS PER WEEK. The number and per cent of employees in the principal productive occupations in Bessemer converting plants whose customary working time per week was 6 days or turns, or 7 days, or variations thereof, are shown in Table 18. The figures are presented for each of the two districts for which these plants are reported and for the two combined. The emplojrees given under the headings "5 days, 6 days, and 7 days in rotation," "6 days, 6 days, and 7 days in rotation," and "6 days, 7 days, and 7 days in rotation" are engaged in occupations for which the plant employs ...