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 II. Pre-war principles and methods

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PRE-WAR PRINCIPLES AND METHODS 17 depended on woman and child labor, and were character- ized by exceptionally low wage levels, In communities where other basic industries, such as iron and steel manu- facturing and coal mining, were localized, secondary indus- tries were established with the object of taking advantage of the low wage standards of the men by securing cheap woman and child labor from their families. The cen- tralizing of cigar and “stogie,” candy, paper box, clothing, and millinery manufacturing in Pittsburgh and other steel- manufacturing centers, and of hosiery, knit goods, and silk manufacturing in the anthracite coal-mining fields, and of shoe factories in bituminous coal-mining areas, were ex- amples of this general tendency.? NEw PrINCIPLES ADVOCATED Altho this was the situation as to actual methods and conditions, and altho new principles as to fixing wages were not generally accepted prior to the war, nevertheless, new conceptions as to what wages should be were con- stantly and earnestly put forward during this period, and vigorously advocated, especially in connection with wage- arbitration proceedings. As a matter of fact, the educa- tional work done in this way, as well as the agitation car- L For details as to this general situation, see: Final Report of U. S. Commission on Industrial Relations, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1915. Jaret of U. S. Immigration Commission—Vols. VI-XXVIII—Washington, Bureau of Labor, “Women and Child Wage Earners in the United States,” 1910, Senate Document No. 645, 61st Congress, 2nd Session. U. S. Public Health Service, Bulletin No. 76, 1916. U. S. Children’s Bureau, Department of Labor, 1915, “Study of Infant Mortality in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.” U. S. Children’s Bureau, Department of Labor, 1915, “Study of Infant Mortality in Montclair, New Lrrsey.” U. S. Children’s Bureau, Department of Labor, 1917, “Study of Infant Mortality in Manchester, New Hampshire.” U. S. Provost Marshal, Second Report to the Secretary of War on the Selective Draft Service, December, 1918. The Pittsburgh Survey, 1910, Russell Sage Foundation. “A Living Wage,” John A. Ryan, 1920. “Labor’s Crisis,” Sigmund Mendelsohn, 1920. oq, 0nditions of Labor in American Industry,” Lauck and Sydenstricker, |

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