Mehr Freiheit im Welthandel!

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Identifikator:: 1737338890

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-112196

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Wilden, Josef http://d-nb.info/gnd/117380016

Title:: Mehr Freiheit im Welthandel!

Edition:: Als Hs. gedr.

Place of publication:: Düsseldorf

Publisher:: Industrie-Verl.

Year of publication:: [1926]

Scope:: 35 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 1. Die Zollasten

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THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE WORKERS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES The problem will be discussed from three points ot view: (1) wages reckoned on a gold basis; (2) real wages (i.e. the actual purchasing power of wages); (3) workers’ family budgets as shown by various enquiries. I. Gold Wages. A comparison between wages reckoned in gold in different countries is of special interest in connection with the cost of production, as it enables the cost of labour expressed in a single currency (the normal pre-war curiency) to be compared between producing countries which are competitors in the world market. But a study of the fluctuations of gold wages is also of value in relation to the standard of living, because the purchasing power of wages is in fact more or less affected by these fluctua- tions. To calculate the gold wages in various countries, the nominal wages are converted into dollars, or some other gold currency at par. Thus, for the period from March 1923 to July 1926, and for the base period 1 August 1914, the wages have been calculated in gold francs for a series of occupations belonging to several typical industries: in the building trades: masons and brick- layers, carpenters, plumbers, painters (general), labourers (general); in the engineering trades: fitters, ironmoulders (hand), pattern-makers, turners, labourers; in the furniture trades: cabinet-makers, labourers; in the printing and allied trades: hand compositors, machine compositors, machine minders, bookbinders, labourers. The data utilised are those employed in the comparisons made by the International Labour Office as regards real wages

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