Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Partly as a result of the past national political apathy, which has come with our industrial prosperity, many students who are, or who soon will be, ready to vote, are in a deplorable state of political ignorance. Many a college man knows less about labor problems, government control of corporations, the commission form of city government, woman suffrage, or any of the other great problems now confronting the country, than does a newly landed immigrant. Some have but a hazy idea of the very forms of government under which we live. Every student should find time from his "cultural" pursuits...
SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Labor Conditions in the Steel Industry." Mr. Charles Mills Cabot. Upper Dane, 4.30 P. M. Open to students in the Graduate School of Business Administration...
SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Labor Conditions in the Steel Industry." Mr. Charles Mills Cabot. Upper Dane, 4.30 P. M. Open to students in the Graduate School of Business Administration...
...theory, but rather the name of a phase of civilization that we are approaching. Today, having passed the phases of feudalism and slavery, we have the capitalistic phase in which the worker is free but still dependent upon capital for employment. While seeking this employment the laborer is forced into the open market and hence is subjected to competition, which makes it possible for the employer to hire his men at starvation wages. Machinery, having done away with the necessity of skilled labor, has complicated the situation...
...wage question in the United States and has found that the average wage of the working man does not exceed $6.75, while in Lawrence, the textile workers receive less than $6 a week. These conditions exist in spite of the protective tariff which manufacturers claim is primarily to protect labor. Due to the high protective tariff, we are now in a condition of over-production, which forces us to compete with other countries in the world's market, and which is also responsible for our industrial crises, another of which Mr. Berger predicts will come...