Untersuchungen über die Theorie des Preises

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Identifikator:: 82998786X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41040

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Auspitz, Rudolf

Title:: Untersuchungen über die Theorie des Preises

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXI, 555 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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168 The Stock Market Crash—And After Recent Economic Changes says (page 490), ‘the period since 1922 has been remarkably free of up- heavals in industrial relations.” The committee finds from the records of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics a ‘‘sharp decline” since 1922 “over the preceding years from 1916 to 1921.” In the period 1916-1921, there were 3,503 disputes in- volving 1,789,301 employees per year; in the period 1922-1926, there were but 1,164 disputes involving only 688,538 employees per year. This is despite the fact that 1922, which is included in the period of fewer disputes, was one of large strikes and more properly belongs in the earlier period. President Hoover's committee remarks: “The comparative quiet of those last years is all the more marked in contrast to the state of affairs before 1923, when there took place some of the largest and longest strikes in the history of the country. In 1919, more than 1,000,000 workers were involved in strikes in the coal fields and rail- road industry; disputes in the building trades of Chicago and New York resulted in a strike of 250,- 000; 100,000 longshoremen along the Atlantic coast stopped work; a strike in the stockyards of Chicago brought out 65,000 strikers; and strikes in the cloth- ing and textile industries several hundred thousands more. Altogether, the reports to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate more than 4,000,- 000 persons involved in industrial disputes in 1919. The following years were quieter but by no means free of strikes. In 1920, there were the large ‘out-

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