Category: Politics

The Settlement of Wage Disputes

Sec. 2. Such principles as have been used in the settlement of wage disputes have usually resulted from compromise; reason and economic analysis have usually been secondary factors. However, industrial peace cannot be secured by a recurrent use of expedients.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

Sec. 2. Such principles as have been used in the settlement of wage disputes have usually resulted from compromise; reason and economic analysis have usually been secondary fact...

2. Chapter 2

Sec. 1. The chief aims of any policy of wage settlement for industrial peace defined--the chief tests to be passed. A knowledge of present industrial facts essential to the form...

3. Chapter 3

Sec. 3. These three to be taken up in order. The volume of the flow of wealth in the county of the worker the first to be considered. Its relation to wages indirect, as all prod...

4. Chapter 4

Sec. 3. The causes of the existence of these groups in the United States to-day. Inequality of natural ability; inequality of opportunity; artificial barriers. All these contrad...

5. Chapter 5

6. Chapter 6

Sec. 1. The problems of wage settlement arising out of upward price movements two in number: (a) Should wages be increased during such periods? (b) If so, on what basis should i...

7. Chapter 7

Sec. 1. The remainder of the book will consist of an attempt to mark out principles of wage settlement that could be applied with relative peace and satisfaction in the settleme...

8. Chapter 8

9. Chapter 9

10. Chapter 10

Sec. 1. Why there must be in industry an ordered scheme of wage relationship between each and every group of wage earners. The limits of collective bargaining as a factor in ind...

11. Chapter 11

Sec. 1. The scheme of wage relationship must recommend itself as just to the wage earners and the community in general. The ultimate distributive question to be met is the divis...

12. Chapter 12

13. Chapter 13

Sec. 4. The matter of economic security for the wage earners likely to be important for industrial peace. Hardly considered in this book. The question has been presented to the...

14. Chapter 14

Section 1. In any attempt to formulate principles for use in the settlement of wage disputes, past experience furnishes much guidance. What this experience consists of.--Section...

15. Chapter 15

Section 1. The chief aims of any policy of wage settlement for industrial peace defined--the chief tests to be passed. A knowledge of present industrial facts essential to the f...

16. Chapter 16

Section 1. A knowledge of the forces governing existing wage levels essential in any attempt to work out a policy of wage settlement for industrial peace.--Section 2. Wage incom...

17. Chapter 17

Section 1. We have next to examine the causes of formation of relatively separate groups of wage earners.--Section 2. What is meant by a "relatively separate group"?--Section 3....

18. Chapter 18

Section 1. The transactions of distribution arranged in terms of money. How does this affect the outcome of distribution as regards wages?--Section 2. The characteristics of pri...

19. Chapter 19

Section 1. The problems of wage settlement arising out of upward price movements two in number: (a) Should wages be increased during such periods? (b) If so, on what basis shoul...

20. Chapter 20

Section 1. The remainder of the book will consist of an attempt to mark out principles of wage settlement that could be applied with relative peace and satisfaction in the settl...

21. Chapter 21

Section 1. What variations or limitations should be introduced into the principle of standardization in view of the great area and economic diversity of the United States?--Sect...

22. Chapter 22

[111] Justice Higgins of the Commonwealth Court of Australia has dissented from the saving clause idea simply on the ground that if the unions desire standardization and uniform...

23. Chapter 23

Section 1. The reasons for seeking separate principles for the settlement of the wages of the lowest paid groups.--Section 2. Wage statistics of these groups a matter of familia...

24. Chapter 24

Section 1. Why there must be in industry an ordered scheme of wage relationship between each and every group of wage earners. The limits of collective bargaining as a factor in...

25. Chapter 25

Section 1. The scheme of wage relationship must recommend itself as just to the wage earners and the community in general. The ultimate distributive question to be met is the di...

26. Chapter 26

Section 1. The profits return in industry, under any policy of wage settlement, will be closely scrutinized.--Section 2. The possibility of measuring a "fair" profits return for...

27. Chapter 27

Section 1. The hope for industrial peace in the United States.--Section 2. A policy of wage settlement composed out of the principles already set forth.--Section 3. What results...