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 IV. Post-war conflict and reconstruction

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58 = INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES demands as to wages, the representatives of the mine workers took practically the same fundamental position as the railroad employees did later. They repudiated the cost-of-living method of wage adjustments as a wartime measure not adapted to the normal conditions of industry, and one which, if permanently adopted, would leave the laboring classes without hope of economic advancement. In addition to asking just and reasonable increases in rates of pay to pick-miners, they made their chief argument and presentation in behalf of rates requested for dav men, on the ground that such rates were essential, under existing conditions of work, to enable a mine worker to earn a “living-wage” or to support himself and his family on a minimum level of health and modest comfort.? Tue “HeaLTH AND DECENCY’ BUDGET oF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF L.ABOR In advocating the “living wage” principle, the represen- tatives of the labor organizations, as might be expected, relied upon past precedents, such as the Seattle Street Railways and the Packing House Awards of 1917-1918, and also submitted budgetary studies which had previously been prepared, such as the Seattle and San Francisco budgets of 1917, as well as those prepared by Professor William F. Ogburn for the consideration of the National War Labor Board in the year 1918. Soon after the close of the war, in connection with the adjustment of Government employees’ salaries by a Con- gressional Committee on Reclassification, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics was requested to prepare a budgetary study on the basis of “minimum health and I ————————————————— 1 Proceedings Before the United States Bituminous Coal Commission, Wash- ington, Department of the Interior, 1920.

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