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

290 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES covered wage determination as well as relations between employers and employees. It was as follows: 1. The right of employees to organize and to bargain collectively through chosen representatives is recog- nized and affirmed. This right shall not be denied, abridged, or interfered with by employers in any manner whatsoever. The right of employers to organize in associations or groups and to bargain collectively through chosen representatives is recognized and affirmed. This right shall not be denied, abridged, or interfered with by the employees in any manner whatsoever. Employers shall not discharge workers for mem- bership in the union, nor for legitimate trade-union activities. No employer shall demand or exact a contract from an employee which undertakes to ob- ligate him to refrain from exercising the right to join a union. Employees who, previous to this agreed-upon code, have entered into individual con- tracts with employers shall have the right to abro- gate these contracts, to affiliate themselves with the union, and to have the union represent them in deal- ing with employers. Human standards of health, safety, and economic well-being shall be accepted as the constraining con- siderations in fixing the wages and working condi- tions of employees. The right of every unskilled or common laborer to earn a wage sufficient not only for the necessities of life, but also to maintain a normal family in health and reasonable comfort, and to afford an oppor- tunity for savings against unemployment, old age, and other contingencies, is recognized and affirmed. Above this basic wage for unskilled workers, dif- 4.

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