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Description: | Between 1846 and 1900 there were very few rights for factory workers and wages had generally remained static. The company did set up a sick fund in 1849 with income from donations, fines and unclaimed wages. In 1872 the working week for men was reduced from 58.5 a week to 54 hours, the same as for women. In the 1860s employees had between 5.5 and 7.5 days leave per year - Good Friday, Whit Monday and three or four days off at Christmas. Such events as the Reading races qualified for a half-day off. The partners paid no wages for those days until 1873 when they paid wages for Christmas day only. By law the employees were also given a few hours off to vote at general elections. By the 1870s the female workers were given an afternoon cup of tea as it was thought that they worked more effectively on it. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading University Library | Subjects: | social services trade working life | Temporal: | start=1865-01-01; end=1880-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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