Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1896933912

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

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18 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES ried on by certain social agencies, was the most significant feature of the period immediately preceding the war. The facts as to wages and working conditions which had been developed by governmental and private inquiries were so startling and so fundamental in their industrial, social, and civic significance that it was clearly apparent that they could not continue to be ignored when considered from any standpoint—whether one of humanity, public welfare, or even from the point of view of profit or the future effect- iveness and productiveness of industry. To students, investigators, or industrial leaders with foresight, and to all groups of enlightened public opinion, it became increas- ingly evident that industry needed a constructive program for determining wages which (1) would lead to a wider and more equitable dissemination of economic welfare, (2) would make possible an upstanding, dependable citi- zenship in a self-governing republic such as ours, and which (3) in conjunction with improved methods of man- agement, would bring about greater productive efficiency in industry, and a larger and more stable measure of national prosperity. The gradual emergence of this point of view was in reality the most significant aspect of the pre-war period so far as the determination of wages was concerned. Opinion was slowly crystallizing toward changed principles and practical methods when we entered the World War. This interregnum, so to speak, temporarily put aside the move- ment then in progress, but the theories as to wage-fixing which were being advanced in the years 1914-1916 with- out practical success, have finally become, as we shall see later, the commonplaces of the post-war industrial world, and have not only met with general acceptance and appli- cation, but in some of their aspects have been elaborated and authoritatively sanctioned in a way that even the most

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