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 II. Pre-war principles and methods

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34 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES (1) There has been a marked increase in their labors and responsibilities. (2) The Productive Efficiency of Engineers and Fire- men, or, in other words, the volume of traffic handled per Engineer and Fireman, has been greatly increased. The Engineers and Firemen employed by these repre- sentative Western Railroads, on a very conservative basis of calculation, which grants every advantage to the Railroads, for each $1,000 paid, hauled a volume of com- bined freight and passenger traffic from 40 to 50 per cent. greater in 1913 than in 1890. On individual Rail- roads the gains made in Productive Efficiency in many cases were even more remarkable than those mentioned above. (3) This increased productivity has been attended by a decrease in costs to the railroads, in terms of wage payments to Engineers and Firemen for each unit of trafic handled, or, in other words, it has cost the Rail- roads less in outlay to Engineers and Firemen to trans- port ton miles and passenger miles. During this same period, 1890-1913, the outlay in terms of Engineers and Firemen for each 1,000 ton miles handled by these twenty-four representative Western Railroads declined from 65.2 cents to 32.1 cents, or in other words, each 1,000 ton miles handled cost 33.1 cents less in wages to Engineers and Firemen in 1913 than in 1890. (4) There is no doubt, and it has been freely acknowl- edged and repeatedly stated, that the growth of the large revenue gains discussed in the preceding section have been in part due to additional capital investment in Western Railroads, which should receive a liberal return for its use and the risk involved. A complete analysis of the increased operating efficiency of Western Rail- roads, therefore, brings up the question as to whether the revenue gains, which have resulted from the addi- tional capital investments, managerial ability, and the

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