Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Wage Changes in Industry, September, 1914 December, 1920: Research Report Number 35, March, 1921
It is the purpose of the Board to continue the publication of studies of wage changes in American industry and, so far as practic able, to cover the principal industrial occupations. The data presented indicate the movement of actual earnings rather than of wage rates. Actual average earnings, representing the wage earner's income, are best suited to show the fluctuations of wages in comparison with changes in the cost of living. The tables and diagrams used in presenting the data are self explanatory. The results are based on pay-roll returns for the number employed during a single week in each month covered by the investigation, and are given separately for male and female employees. The average hourly earnings were obtained by dividing the total weekly pay-roll in money by the actual number of hours worked. The average weekly earnings were found by dividing the total weekly pay-roll in money by the number of wage-earners employed. Wage investigations of this kind are necessarily limited to a sampling of the various industries covered. The fact that the results of this and the previous inquiries conducted by the Board are not exactly comparable because not related to the same establishments, in all cases is fully recognized and acknowledged. A different sampling, or a sampling covering identical establishments for each of the various periods, would undoubtedly give Somewhat different results. It is believed, however, that the index numbers representing fluctuations in wages give an approximately true idea of the changes which have taken place during the past six years. This view is confirmed by the fact that data collected by other agencies show the same general trend in wages as the present and previous wage studies conducted by the National Industrial Conference Board. 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.
