Word: labor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ethics of the Social Questions. The Ethics of the Labor Question. Professor Francis G. Peabody. Sever...
Best general references: Story Coming. SS 699 - 709; Von Holst, Const. Law, p. 77; Senator Chandler in Congressional Record 1891 - 92, pp 3493 - 3505; Labor Cycl...
Ethics of the Social Questions. The Ethics of the Labor Question. Professor Francis G. Peabody. Sever...
...Brown spoke on the McKinley Bill. He said that the Bill was not one for the laborers, who are likewise the consumers, but for the monopolists and the wealthy manufacturers in general. As a proof of this he stated that over a quarter of the reductions of the bill were on the articles of the iron industry, and quoted from a wealthy iron manufacturer that the legislation on the bill was bought expressly for that purpose. Wages, too, were far from benefited, he said, and amid great applause unfurled a voluminous document, detailing the one thousand labor strikes that have...
...various conditions of society cause much distress, the alleviation of which is the object of charity. It is the attempt to change the social conditions producing these effects, which gives rise to the labor question. The actions of the charity worker must be controlled by business method, which demands a thorough knowledge of the forces operating to produce the conditions observed. No large institutions of charity could exist, however, on a purely business basis. It is the moral, the charitable motive of those who establish them and carry them on, which makes them a success...