Daily working hours, first, the daily working time of industrial workers work 12 hours a day, working double shifts, mainly cotton workers. According to the Republic of China 11 years (1922) on the inside and outside the cotton, to China and Japan, with hang, Toyota and other Japanese mill 13, public, Jar dine, her husband and other three British companies Mao mills, and Hung Yu, integration benefits, permanent Yu, Po Cheng, application of new, Dafeng, Hong Zhang, Pu Yi, Zhentai, Ministry of Health and other mills in the survey of 13 Chinese businessmen, the daily working time is 12 hours.

The survey of Chinese and foreign mills at Shanghai Foreign mills accounted for 72% of the total. There are related with the spinning weaving factory, weaving factory, plush textile, manufacturing Pa factory, hosiery factory, and workers working hours per day for 12 hours. Most was originally a long day shift, 14 hour work day, 6:00 into the factory to work every day 21:30 after work, instead after two night shifts working 12 hours. According to Fuxin, Owen, Changfeng and other 12 Chinese businessmen mills, and Dacheng, Yuan, co-an, Prudential and other filature survey, workers working hours per day for 12 hours. Cigarette industry also has some factories working 12 hours a day, or nearly 12 hours, such as large south-east of China into a system of tobacco companies and cigarette factory is 11 and a half hours. The mill, cotton mills, filature, silk plants, flour mills and some cigarette factory, the workers amounting to approximately 13 million people, accounting for 11 years the Republic of China (1922) Shanghai Modern plant 20 million industrial workers, 65% of the total.

Machine manufacturing plant and a large lung machines are also many small iron works 10-10 hours a half. Others include tanneries, soap factories, wood plants, canneries, factories and seafarers in the glasses sailors; the daily working time is 10 hours.

Working 8 hours a day, a public sector tram Shanghai Electric Light Company Law and Business, the Chamber Electric Company, the British gas company Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Council Concession municipalities. And the Commercial Press and so on. Zhonghua Book Company, working time is 8 hours per day a half.

In the same industry or in the same factories and enterprises, workers working hours per day also varies. Oil pressing plant workers to get started classes 3 hours a day do 2 classes, a total of 6 hours, start with the workers to do 12 hours.

The actual working hours of workers are often exceeds the working hours, factory conditions prevailing overtime, some for up to fifteen or sixteen hours a day and a night or sometimes lasting two days and nights without a break. According to the Republic of China 35 years (1946) Shanghai Municipal Social Bureau of Industry 240 40 92 971 factory workers in the survey, a total of 19 industries in which 101 plants, 29,041 workers to work overtime, respectively, which accounted for 47.5% , 42.1% and 31.2%. Spinners always "work week" is doing night shift workers, in the last night (Saturday night from 6 pm to 6 am Sunday) to do more hours than usual, while Sunday 18:00 workers working at night To advance a few hours to work every day most of the "work week should be ninety o'clock in the morning, afternoon or three o'clock in the night shift should, do it 16 hours or more.

Fuk a new tobacco company has even forced workers to work continuously 36 hours. Jiangnan Shipyard work on behalf of the provisions of 9 hours per day, often more than 10 hours actually, sometimes up to 12 to 15 hours. According to the Republic of China 10 (1921) August 3 Shanghai "Republic Daily" reported: "Great Zhabei machinery plant efficiency even busy business the past two months, both day and night not allowed to stop working. ... ... 3 a day to do work during the day and a half hours to do nine count a work night to do five hours considered a work day and do a night to do two. "For some continuity of work, workers will work for less intermittently. If the workers loading and unloading terminals, put the goods in a ship from the air or filled, often work continuously day and night, or even two days and nights.

Less labor time also exist in some enterprises. Typically a cigarette factory workers in cigarette sales volume, the 1 day to do more than sixteen of seven hours; when the task is low, 1 day only an hour or two, and sometimes stop one day to do 1 day, and sometimes even stop 1 weeks or 1 month. Especially in Huangmei days, cigarettes easy to mold, cigarette factory will not do inventory, how many do much to sell, and sometimes do not do the factory the next day instead. Thus the work of the workers was for the request for additional time to strike. 20 years of the 20th century, British and American Tobacco Factory was on strike, to put forward 10 conditions of the factory, where one is doing at least 5 days per week, do at least 9 hours per day, if not done 1 week 45 hours, according to 45 wage hours shall be granted.

Handicraft workers and shop staff working hours per day

Handicraft workers in very different working hours per day, mostly between 14 to 15 hours, the shortest was 6 to 7 hours. Store clerk working hours per day is generally about 12 hours, some longer.

Such as textiles, in the lower-level staff and workers to work at the same time, the difference is between rests and eats a little longer, each 1 hour, the actual 10 hours a day. Shanghai trams Electric Company in French Business, the British companies and British companies tram Shanghai bus companies, small and medium working time staff of about less than 1 hour workers. Senior staff of foreign companies, the daily working time is generally 6 hours.