The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1804651486

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-193069

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Author:: Lauck, William Jett http://d-nb.info/gnd/173237126

Title:: The new industrial revolution and wages

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Funk & Wagnalls

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: ix, 308 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. Acceptance of the theory of an adequate basic wage

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136 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES American Association for Advancement of Science, December 29, 1917. He stated: It is obvious that the basis of every family is two individuals. The question then resolves itself as follows: How many children must be born to every family in order that two individuals may be raised to maturity? The number of children born must be more than two for a number of reasons. The first is the fact of mortality. The death rate is excep- tionally high in the period of childhood, amounting in the first year of life to about 10 per cent. of the babies born. If we begin with 100,000 at birth and trace them through from year to year, we find that about 75,000 are alive at the average age of marri- age. This is according to the mortality rate that prevails over a large portion of the United States. The rest have died. This fact alone would make it necessary that every marriage result in an average of two and one-half children in order that two per- sons may attain the average age of marriage and replace their parents in the population. But this assumes, first, that all persons marry, and, second, that every marriage is productive. As a matter of fact, all persons do not marry. In our own country from 12 to 15 per cent. do not marry until after the reproductive period, if at all. A considerable pro- portion of marriages, over 7 per cent. are sterile, When we make the necessary corrections in our fig- ures, the average number of children per family which must be born is increased to close to four in order that the stock may maintain itself without increase or decrease. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Chicago Council of Social Agencies, and other respon- sible authorities also gave official approval to this statement of Doctor Dublin.

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