FRANCE. 



THE INCREASE IN AGRICUIvTURAIy WAGES FROM 1914 TO 1916. 



SOURCE : 



I,A Main-d'cbuvre agricole {Agricultural Labuur),'S'' 216, i )th year, Paris, 10 July 1917. 



The enquiry which the Ministry of Agriculture undertook among man- 

 agers of agricultural departments as to agricultural wages has been con- 

 cluded, and it is now possible to make use of the results obtained by the 

 office of agricultural information within this ministry. The figures which we 

 here reproduce show the average increase of the wages of labourers, whether 

 fed by their employers or otherwise, the rate at which labour has decreased 

 and the rate at which the average 5deld of a working day has diminished, 

 in each department. Then for each agricultural district the average wages 

 of labourers, whether fed by their employers or otherwise, in 1914 and in 

 1916 are shown ; and finally the percentage of increase in the wages of la- 

 bourers, fed and not fed by their emplo^^ers, between 1914 and 1916 ; and 

 the rate at which labour has been reduced and the average ^deld of a work- 

 ing daj^ diminished in each district and in the whole country. 



Department 



Average increase 

 in a labourer's wages 



not fed by 

 employer 



fed by 

 employer 



Morbihan . . 

 Finistere . . 

 Manche . . . 

 Ille-et-Vilaine 

 C6tes-du-Nord 

 Orne .... 

 Sarthe . . . 

 Calvados . , 

 Mavenne . . 



1st Agricultural District — North-West. 

 63 



50 

 28 

 27 



41 

 42 

 46 

 42 

 50 



Average wages in 



ist district . . . 3.25 4.66 

 Average increase . . 43 % 



