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Word: wages (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days of personal contact between employer and wage-carner have long since passed and something must be substituted if the workingman is to feel a contentment and pride in earning his daily bread. Many attempts have been made; yet the problem remains, chiefly because those who understand both the attitude of labor and business administration are few, and hard to find. "It is significant to note," points out Mr. Lytle, "that these cooperative students are quite universally interested in the administrative side of engineering. They are not inclined to slight straight engineering interests but they see the fascination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUMAN ENGINEERS | 11/17/1920 | See Source »

...without funds. The other side of the work--the study and tabulation of data, the experimental research--has been handicappel by slim support. Those of us who live outside of any contact with infantile paralysis can little realize the great good that is being done in changing cripples into wage earners--"the reconstruction and re-education of human derelicts." A greater good can be accomplished by learning how to prevent the spread of paralysis. The Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission deserves the active support of a grateful public, especially of Harvard men who wish to endorse the action of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HELPS FIGHT PARALYSIS | 11/13/1920 | See Source »

...Managers sometimes forget," said Mr. F. C. Hood, treasurer of the Hood Rubber Company, in a speech at a conference of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, "that they must establish their credit with their employees-credit for honest leadership, credit for just dealings, credit for just wage payments, credit for right working conditions, credit for sympathy with human needs, credit for understanding the ambition of fellow workers, credit for the recognition of faithful service, credit for kindness and credit for thoughtfulness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ERRONEOUS LABOR POLICY | 11/2/1920 | See Source »

Here, indeed, is sufficient evidence that the miners have some support for their demands. The trouble is that the government tried to soothe them, at the time and since, by mere wage raises, without even giving consideration to the fundamental questions which its own commission investigated and reported upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 10/25/1920 | See Source »

...list of courses offered are: Current Economic Problems. The rise of modern industrialism and the wages system; money, prices and the cost of living; speculation, corporation finance and trusts; wages and profits; economic security--industrial accidents, unemployment and poverty; minimum wage laws and agreements; the relations of employers and employees in theory and practice; trade unionism; the closed shop and collective bargaining; the conservation of human resources; child labor, the work of women and the hours of labor; the law in its relation to labor; and programs of reconstruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMHERST INSTRUCTS LABOR | 10/15/1920 | See Source »

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