Material zur Lage der Bergarbeiter während des Weltkrieges

The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1009139274

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-23341

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Material zur Lage der Bergarbeiter während des Weltkrieges

Place of publication:: [Bochum]

Publisher:: [Verband der Bergarbeiter Deutschlands]

Year of publication:: 1919

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (383 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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96 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES us to see things as they really are,” and in the light of this clearer vision, people came “to regard many conditions as intolerable which before had only seemed as inevitable.” This was especially true of the condition in which unskilled wage earners in manufacturing, mining, and transporta- tion were living before the war. In any true sense, their wages could not be construed as “living wages” even after the attempt had been made during the war period to adjust them to rising costs of living. After the cessation of the conflict, enlightened public opinion, therefore, refused to acquiesce in this state of things. Its attitude had been fundamentally changed by the war. Pre-war notions as to wage standards and principles were no longer accepted. Within a year after the Armistice, church organizations without regard to denomination, statesmen, economists, publicists, national industrial conferences, arbitration boards and other public agencies having to do with wage adjustments and standards, unreservedly sanctioned the living-wage principle. Typical declarations from repre- sentative groups are given below as an indication of the widespread acceptance of the principle of the living wage during recent years.? LABOR PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY OF PEACE Practically a universal sanction to the living-wage prin- ciple by the leading commercial and industrial nations of the world was contained in the Labor Provisions of the Treaty of Peace in 1919. This pronouncement was in part as follows :? : ra Fe Human Needs of Labor,” B. Seebchm Rowntree; London, 1918, pp. 2 For numerous citations for the period immediately following the war, see “The Sanction for a Living Wage: Employees’ Exhibit of the United Mine Workers Before the U. S. Anthracite Coal Commission,” Washington, 1920. 3 Treaty of Peace with Germany, 1919, Sec. II, Article 427.

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