Seventh Annual Report On Labor Organizations For The Year 1914 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report on Union Scale of Wages and Hours of Labor in Massachusetts, 1914 By time-rate of wages as used in this report, is meant the sum agreed upon in return for'services for a specified period, 6. G., an hour, day, week, etc., and should not be confounded with actual earnings, since the earnings of employees depend both upon the rates of wages paid them and upon the continuity of their employment. Thus, in the building trades the actual earnings of an employee are determined not only by the rate of wages but also by the amount of building being done, the condition of the weather, the amount of material on hand, etc.' The rates of wages per hour, or per day, serve chiefly to show, by comparison with rates published in earlier' reports, the upward or downward trend of wages. Although the rate of wages may increase during a specified period, a scarcity of work may effect even a reduction in the actual earnings during that period, while, on the other hand, an abundance of work, reducing the idle period, may have a favorable effect upon the actual earnings even though the rate of wages may have remained un changed. Again, in the case of employees receiving a daily rate, the working hours per day may be reduced, thereby increasing the rate per hour but leaving the actual daily wages unchanged. Likewise, the granting of a weekly half-holiday, without loss of wages, effects an increase in the hourly rate of wages while the actual weekly earnings remain the same. 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.