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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114 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES had the upper hand. The Church admits that her attitude to the economic and social problems has never been properly defined, and that there has been a want of faith in her own principles and in the principles of Christ's teachings. OPINIONS OF EMPLOYERS PRINTING INDUSTRY—COM MERCIAL AND PERIODICAL BRANCHES—DECLARATIONS BY JOINT COUNCIL? Second. The industry to pay at least a reasonable living wage; scales below this to be adjusted in frank recognition of the basic principle involved. The second cardinal point meets another issue squarely and decisively. In some jurisdictions the industry did not pay a reasonable living wage to some workers in 1914. There- fore, in such instances, the application of the first cardinal principle would not provide a reasonable living wage in 1920. It is the determination of the Joint Conference Council to give thorough consideration to the wage scales of 1914, and to find a way to correct these obviously inequitable conditions if it is possible to do so. (a) Wages should be adjusted with due regard to the purchasing power of the wage and to the right of every man to an opportunity to earn a living at fair wages, to reasonable hours of work and working conditions, to a decent home and to the enjoyment of proper social conditions. J. A. NORTON, AUDITOR, FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY? Some of the advantages the living wage idea would give us, as we see them, are: 1. A more cooperative feeling between employer and employee. 1 Cardinal Points of a Labor Policy Agreed Upon by International Joint a forena Council, Commercial and Periodical Branches, Printing Industry, 1920. 2 “The Living Wage—What Is It?” By J. A. Norton, Auditor of Sub sidiary Companies, the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., in Industrial Manage. ment, September, 1919, p. 212.

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