Report On the Statistics of Labor. (Title Varies) 1870-71
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: vest, pantaloon and coat making. Of these, the latter is the most profitable, as it requires the most skill and the longest apprenticeship. The season of 24 weeks per year is subject to great reduction, disappointing the calculations alike of merchant and employes. Vest and pantaloon makers earn per week from |12 to 13.75, coat makers from $16 to 15.50. Hours in shop 10, nearly all taking work home and working from 2 to 4 hours besides, each evening. Instances are known of girls earning $21 i...n one week at coat-making, but it was by working fifteen hours a day. The possibility of earning this amount would depend upon the kind of work given out, it being only the very best of work that commands this price. In the manufacturing departments, the season averages 32 weeks, but the wages paid are smaller. Here the trade is sub- divided into coat-basters and finishers, pant-basters and finish- ers, vest-basters and finishers, machine operators, button-hole makers, and press-women. The wages average from |8 to 12.75 per week.
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