Wages and Hours of Labor in the Metal Trades in Massachusetts, 1914 1919 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Wages and Hours of Labor in the Metal Trades in Massachusetts, 1914 1919 The trend of wages is a subject of widespread interest in the discus sion of present-day industrial conditions. In collecting facts for this six year survey of earnings and hours of labor of wage-earners engaged in the manufacture of metal products in Massachusetts, the Department1 has sought to show the trend of wages from pre-war levels upwards towards the abnormal heights to which they were forced by recent conditions of war. The notable series of increases in wages, brought out in the present inquiry, re¿ects very clearly the increased industrial activities that marked the period of the war, which, together with the lack Of available labor sup ply, as was the case during the later years of the war, had such favor able effects on wages. As manifested by the pay - rolls obtained since the armistice was signed and while the more normal conditions of peace time were gradually returning, the course of wages in the industry was still upward.2 Thus, the limiting in¿uence on wages of a general discontinu ance of overtime work in most of the reporting plants after the armistice and the withdrawal of bonuses, made possible largely through war work, appears to have been more than offset by a continued increase in hourly rates of pay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.