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Herbert Feis. The Settlement of Wage Disputes
The Settlement of Wage Disputes
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE SETTLEMENT OF WAGE DISPUTES
CHAPTER I—INTRODUCTORY
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CHAPTER II—SOME PERTINENT ASPECTS OF THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL SITUATION
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CHAPTER III—THE PRINCIPLES OF WAGES
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CHAPTER IV—PRINCIPLES OF WAGES (Continued)
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CHAPTER V—WAGES AND PRICE MOVEMENTS
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CHAPTER VI—WAGES AND PRICE MOVEMENTS (Continued)
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CHAPTER VII—THE STANDARD WAGE
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CHAPTER VIII—THE STANDARD WAGE (Continued)
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CHAPTER IX—THE LIVING WAGE
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CHAPTER X—THE REGULATION OF WAGE LEVELS
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CHAPTER XI—THE REGULATION OF WAGE LEVELS (Continued)—WAGES AND PRICES
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CHAPTER XII—THE REGULATION OF WAGE LEVELS (Continued)—WAGES AND PROFITS
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CHAPTER XIII—A CONCEPT OF INDUSTRIAL PEACE
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Herbert Feis
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Simultaneously with the revolution in industrial structure and interacting with it in many ways, there has occurred a great change in the composition and character of the wage-earning body. The change that occurred between 1870 and 1910 in the sources of the immigration which has furnished the United States with the bulk of its supply of unskilled and semi-skilled labor, is a commonplace of American industrial history. The effects of this change have been largely governed by other industrial events, chief among which may be put the increased concentration of industry in and around a relatively small number of cities or regions. For as Mr. Chapin in his study of the sources of urban increase has stated: "Immigration has been the chief source of urban increase in the United States during the past quarter of a century."[4]
There has assembled in each of our great cities a mass of workers, many of whom are of recent alien origin, quickly habituated to the routine of existence in crowded city streets and busy factories. The interchange of opinion and of sympathy between these lowest grades of industrial workers and the rest of the community is very imperfect. Their industrial position and outlook tends to be that of a separate class. As a rule, they are unorganized. It is of these grades of labor that Prof. Marshall has written "Some of these indeed rise; for instance, particular departments of some steel works are so fully manned by Slavs, that they are beginning efficiently to take the place of Irish and others who have hitherto acted as foremen: while large numbers of them are to be found in relatively light, but monotonous work in large cities. They may lack the resolute will which put many British, German and Scandinavian immigrants on terms of equality with native Americans. But they are quick withal, versatile; and as a rule, easily molded; they take readily to the use of machinery; and they have no tradition that could prevent them from doing their best in using semi-automatic machines, which are simple of handling, while doing complex work. Thus America has obtained a plentiful supply of people who are able and willing to do the routine work of a factory for relatively low wages, and whose aptitudes supplement those of the stronger races that constitute the great bulk of the white population."[5] They have sought chiefly such improvement in their position as might come from increased wages. They have remained in the regions of the will and of thought subject to those who controlled industry; for they themselves have been in a strange environment, and so have not been able to display, to any considerable extent, the qualities requisite to industrial leadership.
