Modern Economic History with Special Reference to AustraliaWorkers' Education Association of South Australia, 1922 - 288 páginas |
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Página 53
... strike showed that one - quarter of the Steel Corporation's employees were working 12 hours a day for seven days a week , that nearly three - quarters were getting wages below those necessary for the maintenance of a decent standard of ...
... strike showed that one - quarter of the Steel Corporation's employees were working 12 hours a day for seven days a week , that nearly three - quarters were getting wages below those necessary for the maintenance of a decent standard of ...
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... strike , and be supported by a fund provided by the employers . This alliance of capital and labour against the consumer promised well ; within eight years prices and wages doubled . Then came foreign competition and violation of the ...
... strike , and be supported by a fund provided by the employers . This alliance of capital and labour against the consumer promised well ; within eight years prices and wages doubled . Then came foreign competition and violation of the ...
Página 111
... strikes in most industries were illegal , and so machinery for the adjustment of wages had to be provided . The Corn Production Act ( 1917 ) established an Agricultural Wages Board to fix minimum wages for farm hands . After the ...
... strikes in most industries were illegal , and so machinery for the adjustment of wages had to be provided . The Corn Production Act ( 1917 ) established an Agricultural Wages Board to fix minimum wages for farm hands . After the ...
Página 119
... strike as the last weapon in its armoury . It bothers little with outside social and political move- ments , except when they bear directly on its own aims . To its purely union work it may add provisions for friendly society benefits ...
... strike as the last weapon in its armoury . It bothers little with outside social and political move- ments , except when they bear directly on its own aims . To its purely union work it may add provisions for friendly society benefits ...
Página 121
... strike and the lockout - but the existence of conciliation machinery ensures that in most cases a stoppage of work only comes when prolonged discussion has resulted in a deadlock . In most countries trade unionists have since 1890 come ...
... strike and the lockout - but the existence of conciliation machinery ensures that in most cases a stoppage of work only comes when prolonged discussion has resulted in a deadlock . In most countries trade unionists have since 1890 come ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
18th century action agreement agricultural American arbitration Australia banks became began big union bodies Bolshevik British capital capitalist cent century Chartism co-operation co-operative coal committee companies competition conciliation consumer Corn Laws cost court craft unions declared demand democratic disputes early economic eight-hour day employers employment England especially established factory farmers favour Federal firms free trade friendly society Germany growth guild socialism hands Hence ideas important increased industrial Industrial Revolution interests Labour Party laissez-faire land laws legislation machine machinery manufacture Marx Melbourne ment methods monopoly movement organization parliament peasant political possible principle production profit protection Queensland railways regulation revolution scheme secure share social socialist South Australia South Wales strike supply Sydney syndicalism syndicalist tariff Tasmania tion to-day trade union trust unionists wage-earners wages whole workers
Passagens conhecidas
Página 209 - The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under, it.
Página 209 - No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have been developed; and new higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society itself.
Página 81 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Página 208 - The modern laborer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.
Página 67 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Página 68 - ... he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 67 - Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only upon public utility. 2. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Página 205 - The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Página 269 - That as Soon as practicable, this society shall proceed to arrange the powers of production, distribution, education, and government, or in other words to establish a self-supporting home colony of united interests, or assist other societies in establishing such colonies.
Página 208 - It is unfit to rule, because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him.