This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Sept.19594,2905,2526.35.912.09.46.38.4 Oct.19592,0526,3836 95.610.811.74.29.8 Nov.19593,0427,0527.66.111.116.414.312.0 Dec.19593,31814,35215.411.119.623.122.219.0 Mean for year 9.311.216.917.514.815.1 Other deductions that must be made from the apparent wage are the withholding of pay for long periods, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Sept.19594,2905,2526.35.912.09.46.38.4 Oct.19592,0526,3836 95.610.811.74.29.8 Nov.19593,0427,0527.66.111.116.414.312.0 Dec.19593,31814,35215.411.119.623.122.219.0 Mean for year 9.311.216.917.514.815.1 Other deductions that must be made from the apparent wage are the withholding of pay for long periods, exorbitant prices and rents obtained through company stores and houses, fines, and increases in the cost of living. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to conclude that the per diem or weekly wage rate as given by the Bureau of Labor and other reports, affords, by itself, an accurate statement only of P. XI. the maximum yearly wage. This should always be remembered in judging any facts hereafter adduced. In the fifteenth volume of the bulletins of the Bureau of Labor will be found many interesting tables bearing on this question of wages. But as it is impracticable to quote them at any length here, a few of the more salient facts must suffice. Laborers in the flour mills of the South were working twelve hours a day for lie. an hour.7 Women in the carpet factories of the North were getting no more.8 In the factory product of the clothing trade great numbers received less than 10c., lie., and 12c. an hour (p. 35), and the compensation in sweatshops was much less. Male boarders in the knit-goods factories of the North-Central section were averaging less than $387,00 per annum. Women in the same factories were getting much less, some even as low as 7c. and 8c. an hour (p. 43). Silk-spinners in the North-Atlantic section were making only $5.00 a week, or less than $260.00 a year, for a nine and one-half hour day (p. 58). Male cigar-stemmers in the same section were making $6.00 a week (p. 59). In Michigan, in i Imc. cit., p. 3T. 8 p. si. 1905, there were...
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; Type: Book 1912/ No Dustjacket/139 Pages. This book discusses the economic benefits and consequences of purchasing from the producer's and the consumer's vantage point. Red cloth coves with gilt lettering on front cover. Owner's inscription on first blank page. Light edge wear. Spine ends frayed and sun faded. Stain on rear bottom cover. Clean and tight pages with no markings in the book.
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