| Productivity: Includes USMC hull
number; builder's
hull number; vessel's original name; vessel type; round of way; way
number;
date of keel laying; launch date; delivery date; production time in
days
(on ways, in outfitting, and total); labor requirements (direct,
indirect
and total); unit production costs (yard costs, procurement cost,
facilities
cost, and administrative cost); fracture class (if any) and date of
first
major fracture; date of war loss (if applicable). Note that the cost
data
were produced 1946 to provide benchmarks for post-war auction bids.
Total
wartime yard expenditure on capital was allocated to each vessel
produced
according to the time spent in production. The data on facilities costs
therefore do not measure contemporaneous flows of capital services used
in production. |
| Employment: Includes monthly data for
number of
wage earners (total and direct labor); number of salaried employees,
total
employees; total employees engaged on USMC construction; labor turnover
rates (total hires per 100 employees, total separations per 100
employees;
separations decomposed into quits, fires, layoffs, military and other
reasons);
average hours per week worked, wages per hour, absentee rate,
distribution
of employment by shift (Mon-Fri shifts 1,2,3; Saturday employment and
Sunday
employment). Researchers can find monthly employment data for the
remaining
yards in G.J. Fischer, "A Statistical Summary of Shipbuilding Under the
US Maritime Commission During World War II," [Washington DC: Government
Printing Office, USMC, 1949], which is easy to obtain on ILL. |
| Strikes: Each strike listed by start
date, end
date, duration, number of workers involved, person days lost, BLS code
for cause, BLS descriptor for cause |
| Inventories: Provides monthly
estimates of steel
plate inventories in tons and ships worth. Even when available for a
yard,
the data for the period late 1942 to early 1943 are missing. This makes
the data all but useless, as it was precisely during this period that
steel
shortages may have been affecting productivity. |
| Capital: Provides data on
authorizations for capital
investment: contract number, date of approval, date of contract,
purpose
of investment, and amount. |
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