Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Labor Bulletin of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: No. 34, December, 1904
The cost of production of manufactured articles is increased in many ways, making necessary an advance in price when the goods are placed upon the market. There may be a scarcity of the raw material owing to a poor crop, or an increased demand may produce a similar effect. Then, too, there are many kinds of goods into which other manufactured goods enter - as leather into boots and shoes. If the price of leather advances that advance necessarily increases the price of boots and shoes. We do not propose to consider here all the factors which cause in creases ih the cost of production, but shall confine our consideration of the subject to two points only - decreases in the hours of labor and increases in pay. The investigation is a special one, all the material for it having been gathered by the Agents of the Bureau. It covers the five years 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, and 1904 and comprehends 479 reports for branches of occupations in the cities of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
