Wages in 1873: Address read before the Social Science Association at Norwich

by Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey

Russia.

Mr. Egerton states, that, in Russia, 13 hours a day is the average length of the hours of labour, children generally working the same time as men; and yet there is no country in which there is so great a waste of labour. In mills where the best and newest machinery is used, it is necessary to limit the earnings, which, if large in amount, would be expended in drinking. In England a spinner will, with his assistants, attend to 2,000 spindles. In Russia, he never has more than 1,000, and generally 500 spindles under his charge.