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 VIII. Acceptance and general application of the theory of productive efficiency

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194 [INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES In the investigations made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, allowance has been made for the shortened hours during recent years as well as for the decline in the number of workers. On the basis of 1914 as 100, the following advances in the output of individual workers, by leading industries, are shown for the period 1914-1925: Industry Per Cent Increase in Individual Output Tron and Steel Industry: As a Whole........ Blast Furnaces ..... cccoeeveoanne Steel Works and Rolling Mills... Boots and Shoes... - Leather Tanning ....... . a ws Slaughtering and Meat Packing... . Petroleum Refining ...-...... Paper and Wood Pulp........ Cement Manufacturing .. Automobiles ..... Rubber Tires .. Flour Milling ...... Cane Sugar Refining...... 39 54 59 (to 1923) 2 7 7 —— During the same period, the productivity of all steam railroad employees increased 40 per cent. per man-hour, and of train and engine crews alone 34 per cent. As meas- ured by the average daily tonnage per man employed, the bituminous coal miner produced 25 per cent. more in 1925 than he did in 1915.2 In terms of the increase of horse-power, and of output per wage-earner in manufacturing, the National Industrial Conference Board has prepared the following striking comparison, by years, for the period 1899-1925: 1 For studies of increased productive efficiency of industry and- of labor, see the following: “Commerce Yearbook, 1926,” pp. 1-26; “Handbook of Labor Statistics,” U. S. Bureau Labor Statistics, 1924-1926, pp. 528-558; “American Labor Year Book, 1928,” pp. 39-46; “Industry’s Coming of Age,” by Rexford Guy Tugwell, Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1927, pp. 1-28; Bulletins No. 7 and No. 20—National Industrial Conference Board, Inc., New York,

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