Word: labor
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...Wright spoke last night on "The Course of Real Wages in the last Half-Century," a sequel to his lecture of the night before on the course of money wages during the same period. In the latter lecture he had shown the great rise in the wages of labor and in his discourse last night he showed that the effects of this rise had been accentuated by the contemporaneous decrease in prices...
...Aldrich Report of 1891 in the United States Senate and its sequel, the Report of the United States Bureau of Labor, are the only examples in the United States of the use of index numbers. In the former, which follows the trend of prices from 1841 to 1891, the standard is the average price of the year 1860. The sequel to the Aldrich Report, "Bulletin 27" adopts as its basis the prices of 1890-91. But despite the lack of uniformily in construction, all of these tables show approximately the same trend of prices...
...very thorough industrial investigation. Here there was a minute classification according to wages received and a grouping by age and sex. The system was not used again for years, however. The work of 1846 went for nothing because there were no subsequent data for comparison. In England the Labor office was established in 1893 under the leadership of Mr. Llewelyn Smith who is making an exhaustive search for correct data of hours and earnings of labor. In 1891 the Bureau of Labor was established in France. Specially trained agents are employed for thorough personal investigation and the results are classified...
Official compellation of statistics, although begun in the United States with the census of 1810, never attained any great degree of accuracy until after 1885 when the classification method had become thoroughly established. Now, in addition to the United States Department of Labor which was organized in 1884, there are in this country many other reliable statistical offices--almost every state having...
...great desideratum of statisticians is some common method for presentation and tabulation of figures which can be used everywhere. In this way only can an exact comparison of wages be made. For purely economic purposes use can be made of "positions"--that is, using as a theoretic unit the laborer who works at standard wages for a standard length of time. For social purposes however, there can be no theory in the compilation of figures and we must consider the number of laborers and their time of labor strictly according to truth. When some uniform system has been used...