TABLE VI. CLASSIFIED NOMINAL FULL-TIME HOURS OF WORK PER WEEK IN EACH STATE, BY YEARS, 1907 TO 1912-Continued. WOOLEN AND WORSTED GOODS MANUFACTURING Contd.

TABLE VI.-CLASSIFIED NOMINAL FULL-TIME HOURS OF WORK PER WEEK IN EACH STATE, BY YEARS, 1907 TO 1912-Continued.

TABLE VI.-CLASSIFIED NOMINAL FULL-TIME HOURS OF WORK PER WEEK IN EACH STATE, BY YEARS, 1907 TO 1912-Continued. WOOLEN AND WORSTED GOODS MANUFACTURING-Contd.

TABLE VI.-CLASSIFIED NOMINAL FULL-TIME HOURS OF WORK PER WEEK IN EACH STATE, BY YEARS, 1907 TO 1912-Concluded. WOOLEN AND WORSTED GOODS MANUFACTURING-Concld.

SILK GOODS MANUFACTURING.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

This study of wages and hours of labor in silk-goods manufacturing shows rates of wages per hour and nominal full-time hours per week for the years 1907 to 1912, inclusive, and in addition it summarizes data published in previous reports1 of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and thus furnishes a comparison for the 23-year period, 1890 to 1912, inclusive.

This present report and also previous reports show wages and hours of labor for each of the most important productive occupations in silk-goods manufacturing, but do not show data for all occupations in the industry. The occupations for which data are shown in this report are doublers, dyehouse laborers, loom fixers, pickers, quillers, reelers, spinners, twisters-in, warpers, broad-goods weavers, ribbon weavers, hard-silk winders, and soft-silk winders, and these occupations include a very large proportion of the total employees on productive work and approximately two-thirds of the total employees both in productive and nonproductive work.

Comparing 1912 with certain other years the changes in nominal full-time hours per week, as shown by combining the principal occupations, were as follows:

The changes in nominal full-time hours per week for each of the principal occupations of the industry during the period from 1907 to

1 Previous reports of wages and hours of labor in silk-goods manufacturing have been published by the Bureau, as follows: Nineteenth Annual Report, covering 1890 to 1903; Bulletin No. 59 (July, 1905), covering 1903 and 1904; Bulletin No. 65 (July, 1906), covering 1904 and 1905; Bulletin No. 71 (July, 1907), covering 1905 and 1906; and Bulletin No. 77 (July, 1908), covering 1906 and 1907.