Hours, Earnings, and Employment in Cotton Mills

$8 and less 13 mills 55 hours average number base less broadcloths carding department CLOTH DEPARTMENT cotton mills daily hours day shift DEPARTMENT Total earning each specified employed at night Fifteenth Census full weekly full-time workers hours 40 hours hours hours less industry largest number largest proportion length of service less than $6 less than less Massachusetts and Rhode Median earnings method of payment mills in South mills operating mills reporting months of 1931 night force night operating night shift number of employees number of mills number of women number of workers numbers employed Occupation Statistics operating at night operating hours osnaburgs Pennsylvania mills Percent distribution percent of women print cloths production proportion of women reporting numbers Rhode Island southern mills Spinning and spooling spinning department Texas mills total number U.S. Bureau weaving department weekly hours weekly schedule women earning women employed Women reporting women were employed Women's Bureau