Life at home
Life outside the shipyard was also important. With higher wages, shorter working hours and better housing, the shipyard's employees had many new possibilities.
Throughout the last one hundred years, wages had doubled up 100 times and working hours had almost halved. Around 1900 you could buy a pound of coffee or a pound of butter for one kroner and a blacksmith's wage was 50 øre an hour (half a kroner), so he had to work two hours to buy a pound of coffee or butter.
In Frederikshavn many employees bought their own homes in the new residential areas outside the town's centre. They were areas like little Frederikshavn in Soendergade, in Svendeby, Havebyen or in areas around Emilievej, Ingeborgvej and Agnethevej.
The first non-profit making-housing organisation appeared during the German occupation. It was Niels Minde at Borgmester Hassingsvej. Soon there were two housing co-operatives, Vesterport and Boligforeningen of 1945.
The workers' allotments in Koldinggade and in the East quarter became a do-it-yourself association organised in co-operation with the Worker's association.
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Life outside the shipyard was also important. With higher wages, shorter working hours and better housing, the shipyard's employees had many new possibilities.
Throughout the last one hundred years, wages had doubled up 100 times and working hours had almost halved. Around 1900 you could buy a pound of coffee or a pound of butter for one kroner and a blacksmith's wage was 50 øre an hour (half a kroner), so he had to work two hours to buy a pound of coffee or butter.
In Frederikshavn many employees bought their own homes in the new residential areas outside the town's centre. They were areas like little Frederikshavn in Soendergade, in Svendeby, Havebyen or in areas around Emilievej, Ingeborgvej and Agnethevej.
The first non-profit making-housing organisation appeared during the German occupation. It was Niels Minde at Borgmester Hassingsvej. Soon there were two housing co-operatives, Vesterport and Boligforeningen of 1945.
The workers' allotments in Koldinggade and in the East quarter became a do-it-yourself association organised in co-operation with the Worker's association.
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