The Settlement of Wage DisputesMacmillan, 1921 - 289 pages |
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agents of production applied Arbitration Reports basis Business Cycles capital central authority chapter classes considerable cost of living Court demand determined differentials distribution duction dustry effect efficiency employers employment enforcement enterprises example fact factors Firstly forces G. D. H. Cole govern groups of wage groups or agents H. B. Higgins important index number individual indus industrial peace industry or occupation interest living wage policy ment minimum nomic organization period plenty or scarcity policy of wage possible present price change price decline price level price movements principle of standardization principles of wage product of industry profits return question R. H. Tawney rela relative plenty relatively separate groups result scheme of wage scientific management Secondly settlement for industrial settlement of wages skilled standard wage tend tion trade union United various W. C. Mitchell wage earners wage increases wage levels wage rates wage relationship wage settlement wage standardization workers
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Page 66 - ... first, the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employments themselves ; secondly, the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expence of learning them; thirdly, the constancy or inconstancy of employment in them; fourthly, the small or great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them.
Page 51 - They, with protrusive upper lip, snort dubious ; signifying that Europe, Asia, Africa, and America lie somewhat out of their beat: that what cartage may be wanted there is not too well known to them. They can find no cartage. They gallop distracted along highways, all fenced in to the right and to the left: finally, under pains of hunger, they take to leaping fences ; eating foreign property, and —we know the rest.
Page 6 - And though they are on a larger and more imposing scale in this modern age than before ; yet now, as ever,- the main body of movement depends on the deep silent strong stream of the tendencies of normal distribution and exchange; which "are not seen," but which control the course of those episodes which "are seen.
Page 180 - In fixing wages, minimum rates of pay shall be established which will insure the subsistence of the worker and his family in health and reasonable comfort.
Page 50 - The master of horses, when the summer labour is done, has to feed his horses through the winter. If he said to his horses : "Quadrupeds, I have no longer work for you; but work exists abundantly over the world: are you ignorant (or must I read you Political-Economy Lectures) that the Steamengine always in the long-run creates additional work?
Page 183 - ... needs. It should be obvious that in the interpretation of reasonable needs the court cannot be wholly indifferent to the national income. The reasonable needs of the worker in a community where national income is high are greater than the reasonable needs of the worker in a community where the national income is low.
Page 130 - ... standardized for good and all, scientific management would undoubtedly operate as an unequivocal force tending to the maintenance of rates. As it is with industry in flux, what amounts to rate cutting seems to be almost of necessity an essential part of its very nature. Finally, all of the systems of payment tend to center the attention of the worker on his individual interest and gain and to repress the development of group consciousness and interest. Where the work of one man is independent...
Page 44 - All the time-study in the world cannot show how much ought to be paid for a job. It can only show at most the length of time a job ought to take. That is to say, it cannot determine what is to be the standard of living or of remuneration of the workers. Piece-work prices are inevitably fixed in relation to an assumed standard of living of the worker employed, and time-study gets one no further towards the determination of this standard.
Page 182 - The statutory definition of the living wage is a wage adequate to meet the normal and reasonable needs of the worker. In other words, the conception is ethical rather than economic. The Court has not to determine the value of the services rendered, but to determine what is necessary to meet normal and relative needs. It should be obvious that in the interpretation of reasonable needs the court cannot be wholly indifferent to the national income. The reasonable needs of the worker in a community...
Page 39 - the material and the forces which nature gives . . . for man's aid, in land and water, in air and light and heat.