The Standard Rate in American Trade UnionsPress of the New era printing Company, 1912 - 243 páginas |
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Página 236 - It must be distinctly understood that in referring to the possibilities of a first-class man the writer does not mean what he can do when on a spurt or when he is over-exerting himself, but what a good man can keep up for a long term of years without injury to his health. It is a pace under which men become happier and thrive.
Página 68 - Conference Committees and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and the Switchmen's Union of North America.
Página 3 - PREFACE This monograph had its origin in an investigation carried on by the author while a member of the Economic Seminary of the Johns Hopkins University.
Página 233 - Suppose 20 units or pieces to be the largest amount of work of a certain kind that can be done in a day. Under the differential rate system, if a workman finishes 20 pieces per day, and all of these pieces are perfect, he receives, say, 15 cents per piece, making his pay for the day 15 x 20 = $3.
Página 110 - Very little seems to be known as to the differences in efficiency among men engaged in the same kind of work. It is safe to assume, however, that they are not reflected in time-working trades with any exactness by the wages paid, even where there is no union minimum. When the union confines its action in wage rating to the establishment of a single minimum rate for members engaged in the same kind of work, it is obvious that the adjustment of individual earnings to individual capacity is not as likely...
Página 232 - ... required to do a given piece of work is determined from previous experience, and the workman, in addition to his usual daily wages, is offered a premium for every hour by which he reduces that time on future work, the amount of the premium being less than his rate of wages. Making the hourly premium less than the hourly wages is the foundation stone on which rest all the merits of the system, since by it if an hour is saved on a given product the cost of the work is less and the earnings of the...
Página 237 - ... output would be less, and the net result might be worse for both employer and employee. This raises the inevitable question: What should be the rate of the premium? Nothing but good sense and judgment can decide in any case. In certain classes of work an increase of production is accompanied with a proportionate increase of muscular exertion, and if the work is already laborious a liberal premium will be required to produce results. In other classes of work increased production requires only...
Página 144 - Wherever deviations from the western iron scale signed for by any manufacturer and the Amalgamated Association are made, and evidence is produced to prove it, the Amalgamated Association and manufacturers agree to make every effort to correct the same, provided, the trains and furnaces are similar, but if the deviations continue to be tolerated by the Amalgamated Association, all other mills shall receive the same. All manufacturers and workmen governed by this scale hereby agree not to make any...
Página 234 - standard time " is established, which is considered the minimum time in which the given output can be reached by the use of the best methods. The worker who turns out the work in the " standard " time is said to have an " efficiency of one hundred per cent.
Página 110 - ... union minimum. When the union confines its action in wage rating to the establishment of a single minimum rate for members engaged in the same kind of work, it is obvious that the adjustment of individual earnings to individual capacity is not as likely to be secured as under the piece-rate system. Even where the union does not discourage large outputs, the time wages of the better men do not exceed the minimum in the same proportion that the men show efficiency above the average. It is safe...