STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, BY INDUSTRIES, 1896 TO 1900. [Under "Aggregate working days lost by all employees thrown out of work" is included the number of days lost on account of strikes and lockouts ending in each specified year, regardless of time of beginning. Disputes involving less than 10 employees and those which lasted less than 1 day have been omitted, except when the aggregate duration exceeded 100 working days.] STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, BY INDUSTRIES, 1896 TO 1900. [Under Aggregate working days lost by all employees thrown out of work" is included the number of days lost on account of strikes and lockouts ending in each specified year, regardless of time of beginning. Disputes involving less than 10 employees and those which lasted less than 1 day have been omitted, except when the aggregate duration exceeded 100 working days.] Beginning with the report for 1897, the tabulations do not include disputes involving less than 10 employees or less than one day's stoppage of work, unless the aggregate working days lost exceed one hundred. In the report for 1900 summary tables are given, showing for the five years, 1896 to 1900, the more important facts for each year, and in the report for 1899 are shown for the six years, 1894 to 1899, some of the results, by industries, reduced to the basis adopted in 1897. The following tables show these results and are the only summary statistics of strikes and lockouts that are comparable for the period of seven years, 1894 to 1900: SUMMARY OF STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, BY YEARS, 1894 TO 1900. [Under "Aggregate working days lost by all employees thrown out of work" is included the number of days lost on account of strikes and lockouts ending in each specified year, regardless of time of beginning. Disputes involving less than 10 employees and those which lasted less than 1 day have been omitted, except when the aggregate duration exceeded 100 working days.] SUMMARY OF STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, BY INDUSTRIES, 1894 TO 1900. [Disputes involving less than 10 employees and those which lasted less than 1 day have been omitted, except when the aggregate duration exceeded 100 working days.] SUMMARY OF EMPLOYEES THROWN OUT OF WORK BY STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, BY INDUSTRIES, 1894 TO 1900. [Disputes involving less than 10 employees and those which lasted less than 1 day have been omitted, except when the aggregate duration exceeded 100 working days.] During this seven-year period there were 5,542 strikes and lockouts. There were 1,253,928 strikers and employees locked out and 385,562 other employees thrown out of work, a total of 1,639,490 employees. An aggregate of 50,304,159 working days was lost during this period. The industry group of mining and quarrying supplied the largest number of employees thrown out of work, the textile, and the metal, engineering, and shipbuilding industries being next in importance. In the following series of tables are shown, for each year, the causes of strikes and lockouts and their results. It will be noticed that the tables are not uniform throughout the period covered, 1889 to 1900, inclusive, inasmuch as the data secured for the earlier years of the period were not so complete as those for the later years. In the first table, embracing all of the data secured for the years 1889 and 1890, the facts are given for strikes only, lockouts not having been considered by causes and results. In the second table, embracing all of the data secured for the years 1891, 1892, and 1893, the facts are given separately for both strikes and lockouts. It will be noticed that this table shows some statistics additional to those shown in the preceding one. In the third table, embracing all of the data secured for the years 1894 and 1895, the facts for strikes and lockouts are inseparably combined. The statistics shown in this table are similar in form to those shown in the second one. In the fourth and fifth tables, embracing respectively all the data secured for the years 1896 and 1897, and 1898, 1899, and 1900, the facts for strikes and lockouts are, as in the third table, inseparably combined. These tables differ from the third table in that they include statistics additional to those shown in that table, while they differ slightly from each other in the classification of certain of the facts covered. tables follow. The |