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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30 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES family of husband, wife, and three children of school age, in San Francisco and Oakland. The amount she estimated at $1,476 per annum, with the statement that it covered “a minimum standard of wholesome living and not mere subsistence.” . . . “It would seem, then,” she declared, “that the present scale of wages is such that a family of man, wife and three children of school age cannot be main- tained without getting into debt or receiving aid on much less than $110 a month,” continuing: When the normal breadwinner is paid less than this sum, one of three things, any one of them harmful for the group and for the community, is likely to happen: 1. Other members of the family will have to work to make out the income; or 2. There will be less food than is necessary for the men to do efficient work. The risks of ill health to all members of the group and the consequent costs to the group and to the society are equally plain; or 3. The group must go without many of the articles noted under Sundries and House Operations. The probabilities of stupidity, early breakdown, and dependency are evident, for the expression of the more subtle capacities, the capacity for foresight, for generosity, for sociability, depends on having some money for “Sundries.” One of the most important dif- ferences between social dependents, potential or actual, and self-supporting citizens is that social dependents are willing to go withont the money for “Sundries,” and capable men and women recognize the imperative need for the money that will buy those things the term covers. Tue PackinG-HousE AWARD These Pacific Coast conceptions of a minimum standard of living for the worker, based on health and comfort, were immediately reflected in other sections of the country. As a result of the unrest and dissatisfaction in the Slaugh-

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