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 III. The war period - an interregnum

Collection:: Economics Books

THE WAR PERIOD—AN INTERREGNUM 47 in a broad general occupation, who had hitherto been classified on a lower scale than skilled craftsmen, were elevated to the skilled craft scale of pay. As the net result, one of the most striking wartime developments in the fixing of wages was the more or less arbitrary, but practically necessary, standardization of wage rates nationally or by extended districts, and also by broad occupational definitions. THE “Living WAGE” Where rates of pay before the war had been too low to permit of a standard of health and modest comfort for the wage-earner and his family, it was claimed early in the war that the index of living costs should be ignored and wages should be arbitrarily increased to a point where the health and efficiency of the workers would be maintained in the face of the need for maximum production. Just as ma- zhinery should be kept at its highest efficiency, it was also declared to be sound public policy, by proper wage in- creases, to conserve the human factor of production, or labor, unimpaired. The maximum productive efficiency of these classes of workers, it was held, would thus be main- lained, even tho it were necessary to raise their rates of compensation much higher than would be indicated by increased living costs. A policy of this kind, of course, involved principally the unskilled workers at the bottom of the scale of industrial occupations. This fundamental exception to the general method of procedure of changing rates in accordance with changes in living costs, did not receive any formal sanction until the establishment of the National War Labor Board in the early part of 1918. The principles of the Board, after sanctioning the usual wartime basis of wage-determination by adjustment of wages to advances in living costs with

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