Word: labor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Economic.- (a) Immigrants offset what they produce by remittances home; Smith, Im. and Em., 99:- (b) nearly half of the immigrants are without occupation, and this ratio is still increasing; Lodge's speech, Cong. Rec., Feb. '90. p. 3326;- (c) there is already a large unemployed class of native laborers: Smith, Im. and Em., 127;- (d) displacement of American Labor; Smith, 127; Lodge, Cong. Rec., Feb. '90, 3326;- (e) by classes used to a lower standard of living; Smith, 181:- (f) introduction of the sweating system. Smith. 136; 2. Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 121-123. 3. Social effects...
Question: "Resolved, That an eight hour labor law should be passed in Massachusetts...
...More than eight hours labor does not overtax the manual laborer; e. g. farmers, railroad men, explorers...
...eight hour law would bear unequally on the various industries owing to differences as to:- (a) Use of machinery and manual labor:- (b) Physiological conditions:- (c) Length of working year: Contemp...
...reduction of hours of labor must reduce the total output, and hence the return.- (a) To the laborer. (b) To the capitalist: J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., l, 502.- (c) The laborers on whom it would fall could not aford the reduction...