Amerikareise deutscher Gewerkschaftsführer

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Identifikator:: 1690625112

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-103086

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Amerikareise deutscher Gewerkschaftsführer

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Verl.-Ges. des Allg. Dt. Gewerkschaftsbundes

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 256 S., [1] Bl.; Ill., Kt., Graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Kapitel. Die Wirtschaft der Vereinigten Staaten

Collection:: Economics Books

PROBLEMS OF DISTRIBUTION 231 can secure for the members of the strong trade union a larger remuneration than is enjoyed by people of equal capacity in other trades. By their strong organisation the parties in question place themselves in the position of monopolists ; and the monopolist, whether he be selling labour or commodities, is able to get more than normal earnings, as we have already learnt. As a rule, how ever, it would be necessary for the monopolist trade union to restrict its membership, as it could not hope to place an indefinite number of people in employment at an abnormally high wage, and, if they were not debarred, multitudes of people would flock into the calling in which earnings became exceptionally high. We may inquire next whether larger wages can be secured by the working classes through trade union effort on the assumption that all workpeople are combined with equal strength. They certainly can if it is a fact that social friction is strong and that social friction ordinarily works to the detriment of the wage-earner, as it is alleged that it does. Combination on the part of labour might at least be sufficient to counteract the effects of this social friction, so that wages rose more rapidly and higher on

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