Die Selbstkosten-Berechnung industrieller Betriebe

The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1000912612

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-19383

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Leitner, Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/139681477

Title:: Die Selbstkosten-Berechnung industrieller Betriebe

Edition:: Siebente, vermehrte Auflage

Place of publication:: Frankfurt a. M.

Publisher:: J. D.Sauerländers Verlag

Year of publication:: 1921

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 384 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

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Title:: V. Abschnitt. Die Abschreibung

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

CHAPTER IV POST-WAR CONFLICT AND RECONSTRUCTION The three years following the close of the war repre- sented a transition from the old order to the one now prevailing. It was a period marked by unprecedented industrial unrest and conflict, as well as by a widespread and earnest attempt to realize a larger measure of democ- racy in industry. There was a strong movement, on the one hand, which had for its purpose a return to the old laws of supply and demand and the use of economic strength in determining wages, while, on the other hand, there was an even more aggressive movement, the object of which was to put aside the past and to inaugurate a new industrial era. This latter movement was relatively not so strong industrially and financially as the former, but the lack of financial resources was largely compensated by its determination, aggressiveness, and enthusiasm for the establishment of a larger participation of employees in the control and output of industry based on new ideas and principles developed during the war. PROGRESSIVE OPINION AND CONSTRUCTIVE INDUSTRIAL STATESMANSHIP An influential group, composed of students, statesmen, and publicists, as well as some representatives of both capital and labor, wished to carry over into the years of peace, the experience in wage-fixing and industrial rela- tions—both as to practises and new ideas—which had been developed by the war. They claimed that wartime rates of pay should not be reduced, as pre-war wage-scales had 3

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