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 XII. Labor and the new industrial revolution

Collection:: Economics Books

LABOR’S NEW STATUS 277 men, steam railway engine and train crews and shop crafts, the needle trades, and hard and soft coal miners, By way of illustration: “The Union Scale of Wages,” which is compiled by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, and which represents almost a million highly organized workers, chiefly in the building, printing, and metal trades, showed an increase of 150 per cent. in rates of pay per hour, and 133 per cent. per full-time week, in 1926, as compared with the year 1914; while at the other extreme, the average weekly earnings of unorganized groups, such as automobile workers, farm laborers, and iron and steel workers, increased during the same period only 98, 73. and 72 per cent., respectively. The actual earnings of the organized groups have also ranged much higher than those of the great mass of un- organized workers, altho there is also a considerable num- ber of skilled and relatively highly paid workmen who are not members of labor organizations. As to the adequacy of earnings of wage-earners, even since the time of their participation in the gains of indus- trial expansion, only the more skilled groups may be said to be earning sufficient to maintain their families on a proper standard of living. The Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis, in addressing the American Federation of Labor Convention at Los Angeles in 1927, in this connection per- inently said - Even among the millions of workers regularly employed, we all know there are many who do not share in the good Wages received by the others. The skilled American worker is paid a higher wage than workers have ever received in ristory. What we call common labor is paid little higher than the same type of labor in England, and not much higher than common labor is paid in Germany. Wages for common abor in this country are all out of scale.

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