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 II. Pre-war principles and methods

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PRE-WAR PRINCIPLES AND METHODS IS a craftsman in any sense, but is an animated tool of the management. He has no need of special craft knowledge or craft skill, or any power to acquire them if he had, and any man who walks the street is a competitor for his job. There is no body of skilled workmen to-day safe from the one or the other of these forces tending to deprive them of their unique craft knowledge and skill. Only what may be termed frontier trades are dependent now on all-around craftsmen. These trades are likely at any time to be stand- ardized and systematized and to fall under the influence of this double process of specialization. The problem thus raised is the greatest one which organized labor faces. For if we do not wish to see the American workman reduced to a great semi-skilled and perhaps little organized mass, a new mode of protection must be found for the working conditions and standards of living which unions have secured, and some means must be discovered of giving back to the worker what he is fast losing in the narrowing of the skill and the theft of his craft knowledge. It is another problem which the organized workmen must solve for themselves and for society. Under these circumstances the progressive degeneration of craftsmanship and the progressive degradation of skilled craftsmen seem inevitable. The movement thus described by Mr. Frey more than a decade ago has been intensified since the war by mass pro- duction methods, and the work of all-around skilled crafts- men in manufacturing and mining practically restricted to fields where machinery cannot be utilized. Practical RESULTS The period before the war, so far as wage determina- tions were concerned, may, therefore, be said to have been one which was not marked by the development and accept- ance of any new principles of constructive action. In aca-

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