Political economy

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Identifikator:: 867647221

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93157

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Chapman, Sydney John http://d-nb.info/gnd/123743141

Title:: Political economy

Place of publication:: London [u.a.]

Publisher:: Williams & Norgate [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (255 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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244 POLITICAL ECONOMY To the extremely low-paid occupations attention has been frequently and authorita tively directed, but it is only of late that an experimental handling of the problem of “ sweating,” as it is called, has been attempted. A brief survey of this abuse will shew, as the scientific mind would expect, that its thorough cure is bound up with its causes, and that in the search for its causes economic analysis is an undoubted aid. The theory of wages expounded in Chapter VII. of this work lays it down that wages tend to equal the marginal worth of labour. Then, seemingly, a search for the causes of sweating should reveal that in certain circumstances labour tends for some reason to get substantially less than its marginal worth, which may be very low in addition, or that it is incapable of raising its wage without help, either by im proving in efficiency or by moving to trades where the recompense for work is on a more generous scale. Actually it will be found that some or all these disabilities, exist in the sweated trades, particularly among out workers, and most of the worst paid people are out-workers. Many out-workers are very inefficient because they have never been trained. And their work is very unskilled as a rule,

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