Agrarkrisis und landwirtschaftliche Betriebsorganisation

Iron and steel (continued) (Vol. 1, nr. 3)

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Identifikator:: 1691008664

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-102409

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aereboe, Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/118647172

Title:: Agrarkrisis und landwirtschaftliche Betriebsorganisation

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Parey

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 28 S.

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46 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES basis of district differentials in wage rates, were nullified by the findings of governmental agencies such as the so- called Lane Railway Wage Commission, in the latter part of 1917, and later the investigations conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor. The conclusions reached from these nation-wide surveys was that the cost of living was practically the same throughout the country, or, in other words, variations in one section were offset by different tendencies in another area, and in general the level of the cost of living did not vary in any substantial way from one section to another. In the principal industries and trades, rates of pay of industrial workers were, therefore, standardized. Em- ployees of shipyards received the same rates of compensa- tion for similar work on the Atlantic as on the Pacific Coast. Likewise, the building trades, railway employees, metal trades, and all those engaged in the basic, essential industries, were placed on an equal footing as to com- pensation, irrespective of geographical location. This tendency was further stimulated by the efforts of skilled craftsmen—especially in the organized occupa- tions—to broaden the classification of certain designated occupations in the building and metal trades, and in rail- roading and ship-building. Machine operators, and semi- skilled occupations arising from machine and factory processes in the division of labor, were successfully claimed to fall into the category of skilled craftsmen, and as a result received the uniform journeymen’s rates. Obviously, this procedure brought under the maximum rate of pay for an occupation all those who, in a division of labor by machine processes, had been receiving a considerable number of slightly varying rates; in other words, it tended to stand- ardize workmen upward to the highest rate of an all- around journeyman. In a few other cases, all workers

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