Word: labor
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...chief development in the presentation of statistics of wages has occurred within the past twenty years. Formerly the time and wages of the individual laborers was ascertained without any accompanying record of the number of men and women receiving particular wages. The work of Dr. Bodio in compiling Italian statistics of labor twelve years ago, though considered valuable at that time, is now entirely discredited on account of his incorrect method of classification. The great development in the treatment of wages statistics has come from this side of the water. Entering upon a field new and unexplored, the American statistician...
...show the wages paid to each employee through a period of years, but here the statistician is confronted with serious problems. The number of people employed is always difficult to find; and even when that is done he may be unable to compute the duration of the labor because the time varies with different industries, and in different departments of the same industry. Or it may be that wages have been paid to a group of laborers for work by the piece and here the statistician knows neither the number of men nor the time...
...with the statistics of wages relating to manufacturing but even here the method used is faulty and is a makeshift for the correct system, which is impossible of consumtion. The problems of collecting railroad wage statistics are also perplexing on account of the great variety in the grades of labor employed. The railroad managers in giving out their figures have been accustomed to throwing all the grades about a thousand in number, into five classes and giving the average for each class. Henry C. Adams, Statistician of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is working toward dividing their scale of wages...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Harvard 1, Hon. Carroll D. Wright begins his course of lectures on the Statistics of Wages. Mr. Wright, who was for many years at the head of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, is now chief of the Department of Labor at Washington, and has an international reputation as a statistician and as a writer on social subjects. His lectures, which will continue through this week, will consider not only questions of method and scope in statistics, but also the history of wages as indicated by statistics, especially during the last fifty years...
...accept this as Paul accepted the vision, and to crystallize it by earnest work toward some high end. Because there is present in every soul a serious purpose, we can see further that it must be God's purpose and God's will that we are fulfilling by our labor. Many of us, to be sure, are afraid to admit this close relationship between God and man; we resist his will and try to act independently. Surely we do this in ignorance and blindness; for what more pitiable fate could man have than to be, as it were, an orphan...