The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1804651486

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-193069

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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

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278 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES In his new book on “Social Control,” Doctor John O'Grady, Professor of Sociology at the Catholic Uni- versity of America, says:! Excluding the incapable and the handicapped, we find in every city in the United States large numbers of wage- earners whose earnings are not sufficient to maintain them- selves and their families in health and decency. The situa- tion is further complicated by the industrial hazards which are ever staring the wage-earner in the face and which threaten to cut off his income. At any time the worker is liable to be incapacitated by illness, and from the very first day of his illness his income is usually cut off. If he is engaged in a seasonal occupation, he will be out of work for certain periods every year. A slackening in the demand for a particular product or a general industrial depression is liable to leave large numbers without positions. If we are permanently to improve the condition of the poor and to prevent large numbers of wage-earners from passing over into the ranks of the poor, we must strive earnestly for better wage standards and the protection of wage-earners against industrial hazards. A compilation of the average annual earnings of rail- way employees for the year 1926 showed the following striking distribution of earnings: Annual Earnings $2,200 and under $3,500 1,600 and under 2,200... ... 1,300 and under 1,600 1,000 and under 1,300 Less than $1,000.... yy + 4 1 a a Per Cent of Employees 14.9 30.0 20.8 99 23.2 Less than one-sixth of all the railway employees, it will be seen at once, were earning enough to maintain accepted standards of living for themselves and their families, while about one-third were earning less than $1,300 per annum. 1 Advance statement, National Catholic Welfare Council, Department of Sacial Action, Washington, August 21, 1928.

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