Die Schweiz

The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1008917265

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-19129

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Flückiger, Otto http://d-nb.info/gnd/117736708

Title:: Die Schweiz

Edition:: Zweite Auflage

Place of publication:: Zürich

Publisher:: Druck und Verlag von Schultheß & Co.

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 243 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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174 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES employers and employees, and with least chance of passing on the wage advance to the public by increasing the prices of commodities. JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS! The greater productivity of labor must be not only attain- able, but attainable under conditions consistent with the con- servation of health, the enjoyment of work, and the develop- ment of the individual. The facts in this regard have not been adequately established. In the task of ascertaining whether proposed conditions of work do conform to these re- quirements, the laborer should take part. He is indeed a nec- essary witness. Likewise in the task of determining whether in the distribution of the gain in productivity, justice is being done to the worker, the participation of representatives of labor is indispensable for the inquiry which involves essen- tially the exercise of judgment. WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER, LORD LEVERHULME, BRITISH MANUFACTURER?: Therefore, we can learn another lesson from this, that the payment of high wages, provided we can produce articles that will be within the reach of the consumer, is one of the foundation stones of prosperity, in any community of men and women. WILLIAM H. JOHNSTON, PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS3 Principle (2), according to our unions, constructive func- tions as well as protective ones in the operation of industry, means the enlargement of the scope of collective bargaining, extending its jurisdiction as it were. Where we now enjoy recognition and have agreements with management, our task is simply to negotiate wage rates, working rules, and prevent “1 Industrial Management, February, 1918, in an article entitled “Efficiency by Consent,” p. 108. ’ 2 From a lecture delivered before the Industrial Reconstruction Council, May 19, 1919. 8 Report of President William H. Johnston to 17th Convention of the Inter- nstions] Lorosistion of Machinists, Machinists’ Monthly Journal, October, 924, p. -71.

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