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

Collection:: Economics Books

ACCEPTANCE OF NEW THEORY 113 COL. DAVID CARNEGIE, F.R.S., EDINBURGH, FORMER MEMBER IMPERIAL MUNITIONS BOARD, CANADA! Every one knows that there is something wrong in Society and Industry. There is no peace. Business, politics and Church are all disturbed. The war is blamed for the unrest. [t is said that 45,000,000 people in Britain, and hundreds of millions throughout the world cannot be shaken up for four years without disturbing the peace. This is admitted, but we deceive ourselves if we think that the war is the cause of the industrial unrest. The war has aggravated the situ- ation, but is not responsible for it. The cause lies a long way back. The war has forced the problems of Industry upon the Church. Chaplains and other preachers have had a bap- tism of light on the battlefield from men who never darkened a church door. They believe they have discovered why men discount organized religion. The Church has become aroused; she acknowledges that she has been negligent, and there is a need for repentance and a new birth. The Church sees the people of the world at loggerheads, and she is now standing by wringing her hands and lamenting her past indifference, powerless to help. The Church now recognizes, when too late, that the work- ers have been undervalued, underpaid, underhoused and over- worked. She sees that labor has now the power to secure, without the Church’s help, what it considers fair in pay, in hours and conditions of work. The Church sees a conflict proceeding between labor and capital and the Government in which it appears that labor can dictate its own terms. The Church sees, further, the possibility of great national loss, if a party or class government with ignorance and power become autocratic, as in Russia to-day. The Church believes it knows the rules of the game in Industry and in the disputes arising therefrom. She is anxious to tell them to the contending parties. Labor says it ought to have done that years ago when the employers "14Can Church and Industry Unite?” Marshall Brothers, London, 1920, pp. 92-94.

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