2.
2. Statistics are not available to show what proportion of clothing
articles is manufactured in factories, through contractors or
by home-workers. No large garment factories, where mass pro-
duction methods are used, engage out-workers direct, although
some of them are known to make use of the service of the smaller
concerns in order to fulfil their orders. The number of
out-workers who are employed by medium size and small factories in the garment industry is believed to be relatively small; a rough estimation is 8,000.
II. Employment
A detailed breakdown of the number of workers employed in the clothing industry as at 30th September, 1966, was as follows:
Male
Female
Trade
Total
Adult
YP+16
YP-16 Adult
YP+16 YP-16
Garments
and shirts
19,632
32
5
39,895
386
70
60,020
Knitting 13,530
34
2
17,785
199
50
31,600
Raincoats
130
7
J
150
65
7
359
Total 33,292
73
7
57,830
650
127
91,979
2.
It is clear from the table above that young workers form an
insignificant proportion of the work force. Although more than 63% of the work force in this industry are still female workers,
nevertheless, over the past 8 years, there has been a gradual
increase in the percentage of male workers with the percentage of
female workers dropping by almost 4.6%. See Table B attached.
No estimate on the proportion of part-time workers can be made, as they are seldom employed in factories and industrial establish- ments. Although there is a small number of workers employed on a
part-time basis at home, firms producing well-known brands of
good quality shirts and other garments are in most cases reluctant
to employ out-workers or to sub-contract.
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