J. v. Staudingers Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch und dem Einführungsgesetze: Recht der Schuldverhältnisse

The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1896405266

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Title:: J. v. Staudingers Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch und dem Einführungsgesetze

Place of publication:: München [u.a.]

Publisher:: Schweitzer

Year of publication:: 1910-1911

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896405800

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236545

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Title:: Recht der Schuldverhältnisse

Volume count:: Bd. 2

Place of publication:: München [u.a.]

Publisher:: Schweitzer

Year of publication:: 1910

Scope:: 924 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Allgemeiner Teil. §§ 241 - 432 erläutert von Dr. Ludwig Kuhlenbeck

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54 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES been too low. It was also declared that old wage theories should be abandoned, and a new industrial code should be sanctioned which should set forth more equitable, humane, and democratic principles for determining wages and industrial relations. They also wished to substitute for pre-war industrial conflict, a system for the judicial settlement of wage disputes with these new principles as a guide. This attitude was nowhere better expressed than in the statement issued shortly after the Armistice by the National Catholic War Council in Washington, Its rec- ommendation for post-war reconstruction was, in part, as follows: The general level of wages attained during the war should not be lowered. In a few industries, especially some directly and peculiarly connected with the carrying on of war, wages have reached a plane upon which they can not possibly con- tinue for this grade of occupations. But the number of workers in this situation is an extremely small proportion of the entire wage-earning population. The overwhelming majority should not be compelled or suffered to undergo any reduction in their rates of remuneration, for two reasons. First, because the average rate of pay has not increased faster than the cost of living; second, because a considerable major- ity of the wage-earners of the United States, both men and women, were not receiving living wages when prices began to rise in 1915. . . . Therefore, wages on the whole should not be reduced even when the cost of living recedes from its present high level. Even if the great majority of workers were now in receipt of more than living wages, there are no good reasons why rates of pay should be lowered. After all, a living wage is not necessarily the full measure of justice. All the Catholic authorities on the subject explicitly declare that this is only the minimum of justice. In a country as rich as ours, there are very few cases in which it is possible to prove that the

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