CHAPTER 21. Public Regulation of Hours and Wages

PUBLIC REGULATION OF HOURS AND WAGES

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Abbott, Edith, Progress of the minimum wage in England. J. P. E., 23: 268-277. 1915. Women in industry. 1915.

*Adams and Sumner, chs. II, VIII, XII, secs. 1-4, 9, XIII, sec. 2.

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*Commons and Andrews, chs. III, secs. 2, 3, IV, V.

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QUESTIONS.

1. If you can do more work in two hours than in one, can you do more continuously in sixteen consecutive hours than in eight?

2. What determines the maximum study time for the earnest student?

3. When does an industrious man stop working on his own farm, and why?

4. If production is reduced one-fourth by shorter hours, is "work made" to that degree for the unemployed?

5. Defend the minimum wage policy from the workman's point of view, and state the employers' objections thereto.

6. Suppose it were proposed to establish by law a universal nine-hour day for men.

(a) Under what conditions would you consider such a law socially beneficial?

(b) What other agencies might accomplish the ends which such a law is designed to effect?

(c) What are the chief social and economic effects which you would expect from such a law?