The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1804651486

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

Document type:: Monograph

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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112 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES mate and effective. The Pastoral Letter includes in its defi- nition more liberal provisions than are found in the defini- tion of the railroad employees. It says that “a living wage includes not merely decent maintenance for the present, but also a reasonable provision for such future needs as sick- ness, invalidity, and old age.” HARRY F. WARD, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, BOSTON UNIVERSITY! The principle of the living wage was so thoroughly incor- porated in the life of the Hebrew community that when Paul writes to Timothy he cites it in illustration of the truth that a good soldier of Jesus Christ must accept his share of sui- fering. . . . “The harvest man who labors in the field must be the first to get a share of the crop.” . . . .. In the face of the clear teaching of Scripture, the church dare not fail to proclaim the necessity of a living wage. If Christianity is to be expressed in a community life upon the earth, this principle is basic, and the pulpit must cry aloud without ceasing until it is put at the center of our industrial organization. In the face of modern social injus- tice, the church must ever uphold this ideal of a community life in which all persons have the means for full develop- ment in order that this ideal may call economists, legislators, and industrial leaders to work out the methods by which it can be realized. . . . A living wage for adult male workers means a wage that will support a family, because the highest welfare of the community demands that all men shall be able to maintain a family, and that the family life shall not be broken down by the enforced labor of the mother and the children. The standard living wage for adult males is a wage which will maintain the average family of five—a man, wife, and three children under fourteen. 1 “The Living Wage a Religious Necessity.” American Baptist Publication Society, 1916. Pp. 3-8-10.

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