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The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Herbert Feis
§ 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.
§ 2. Wage incomes determined by great number of forces. The three most important and constant among these stated.
§ 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 product is joint result.
§ 4. The scientific management theories of wages based on a misconception of the relation between the productive contribution of labor and wages. These theories merely an elaboration of one method of wage payment. They have perceived one important truth, however.
§ 5. The "group-demand" theory of wages as held by some trade unions, based on a similar misconception. Valid, sometimes, from group point of view; unsound from point of view of labor in general.
§ 6. The second important force determining wages is the relative plenty or scarcity of the different groups or agents of production. How this governs the share of the product going to wage earners.
§ 7. Many important modifying forces to the influence upon wages of relative plenty or scarcity. The most important considered.
§ 8. The forces determining the sharing out of the product of industry summarized. The idea of normal equilibrium in distribution a mistaken one.
§ 9. A brief analysis of the factors which determine actual plenty or scarcity of the different agents of production at any one time.
§ 10. The third important force introduced-the relative plenty or scarcity of different kinds of labor. The existence of relatively separate groups of wage earners discussed. The nature of an investigation of the principles of wages.
The Settlement of Wage Disputes
Herbert Feis
Literature
Chapter 1 The Principles of Wages 35
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Chapter 2 The Living Wage 177
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Chapter 3 INTRODUCTORY
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Chapter 4 SOME PERTINENT ASPECTS OF THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL SITUATION
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Chapter 5 THE PRINCIPLES OF WAGES
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Chapter 6 PRINCIPLES OF WAGES
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Chapter 7 WAGES AND PRICE MOVEMENTS
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Chapter 8 WAGES AND PRICE MOVEMENTS No.8
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Chapter 9 THE STANDARD WAGE
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Chapter 10 THE STANDARD WAGE No.10
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Chapter 11 THE LIVING WAGE
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Chapter 12 THE REGULATION OF WAGE LEVELS
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Chapter 13 THE REGULATION OF WAGE LEVELS No.13
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Chapter 14 THE REGULATION OF WAGE LEVELS No.14
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Chapter 15 A CONCEPT OF INDUSTRIAL PEACE
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