Wages in 1873

About this eBook

Author

Brassey, Thomas Brassey, Earl, 1836-1918

Title

Wages in 1873: Address read before the Social Science Association at Norwich

Credits

Transcribed from the 1873 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Subject

Labor -- Great Britain -- History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

64469

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64469

Release Date

February 6, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WAGES IN 1873.
2. 2.WAGES IN 1873. — Rise in Wages. — Not attributable to strikes. — The recent strike in South Wales. — Proposal of the International for an universal strike. — In extreme cases strike may produce results beneficial to workmen. Orderly conduct of men on strike in South Wales. — Advance in price of coal. — Mr. Lothian Bell. — Rise of wages in collieries. — Increased profits of colliery proprietors. — Rise of wages has followed advance in price of coal. — Causes which will lead to a reduction in price of coal. — Hours of labour. — The double-shift system. — Coal-cutting machines. — Waste of coal in domestic consumption. — Captain Galton’s fireplace. — Mr. Bessemer’s inventions. — Reduced consumption of coal in steamers. — Inventions of Mr. Siemens. — Substitution of peat for coal. — General prospects of the iron trade. — American competition. — A monopoly of the iron trade impossible. — Shipbuilding. — The engineering trade. — Rise of wages on Continent. — Low wages and cheap production not convertible terms. — Belgium. — Russia. — Switzerland. — France. — Increasing production with the same number of hands. — Employment of children in Belgium. — Employment of women in England. — Shorter hours of labour. — Decline of pauperism. — Emigration. — Wages in America. — Arbitration. — Legitimate province of the trades unions. — Foreign competition. — Communism in Germany. — Co-operation. — Demand and supply determine wages. — Forethought.

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