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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Collection:: Economics Books

CONTENTS CHAPTER I—INTRODUCTION . . The New Industrial Revolution . Sanctions. Sources and Problems > -~PRE-WAR PRINCIPLES AND METHODS . . . . The So-Called “Law” of Supply and Demand . . . Free Play of Supply and Demand Offset by Organi- 4:14 Us) + KE Mediation and Arbitration Unaffected by Fundamental Principles « « » « = 9 + « + + » » & Cost of Living as a Factor in Wage-Fixing . . . . Standardization of Occupations and Rates of Pay . . Practical Results . . . . . . . . . New Principles Advocated . . . . The “Subsistence Minimum” . . . . vo The Results of Budgetary Studies. . . . . . Minimum Requirements and Prevailing Wages . Basic Standards Developed . . . . . . . . Labor Officially Declared Not to Be a Commodity The Standard of “Health and Modest Comfort” The Seattle and San Francisco Awards, 1917 . The Packing House Award . . . . . . . . . Subsistence and Minimum Standards Compared . . The Theory of Increased Productive Efficiency . . . The Situation When We Entered the World War . . —TuE WAR PERIOD—AN INTERREGNUM . . . Necessary Control of Capital and Labor . . . . . Cost-of-Living Method of Wage Adjustment Adopted Budgetary and Cost-of-Living Investigations . . . . Standardization of Rates of Pay . . . ve The “Living Wage” . . . . . The Effects of the War . ~-PosT-WAR CONFLICT AND RECONSTRUCTION Progressive Opinion and Constructive Industrial Statesmanship . . . . . . . . . . . . Reversion to Industrial Conflict. . . . . . . . . Wage Adjustments of Mineworkers and Railway Employees. « « + « « « « « vv « + The “Health and Decency” Budget of the United States Department of Labor . . . . . . . Official Sanctions of the Cost-of-Living and Living- Wage Principles Co PAGE » 9 I / 3) hYA 10 42 42 42 LA 43 7 50 53 53 55 57 S8 62

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