Research Report, Issues 11-20National Industrial Conference Board, 1918 - Economics |
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50 cents 54 hours 54-hour schedule anthrax ASSOCIATION average hourly earnings Average number BOOT AND SHOE budget cities clothing cost of living cotton cotton manufacturing creased daywork decrease in output duction EARNINGS OF MALE efficiency eight-hour day Establishments Employees establishments reporting Establishments Sept factors fatigue female workers health of workers hours per week INDEX NUMBERS Industrial Conference Board investigation July June large number less loom machine machinery MALE AND FEMALE male workers March Men's ment metal trades mill National Industrial Conference November Number Employees number of establishments number of workers operatives OUTPUT AND HEALTH Output decreased Output maintained Percentage of increase piece rates piecework Previous Number Production Decreased Proportional increase Rates of Wages reduction in hours RELATED TO OUTPUT Research Report rest periods September silk manufacturing spinning Statement of Management TABLE Timework tion total number TOTAL PAYROLL AVERAGES tuberculosis United weaver weaving weekly earnings women woolen yarn
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Page 5 - ... labor in any one day of persons engaged upon work covered by contracts with the United States: Provided further, That the wages of persons employed upon such contracts shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours...
Page 5 - That in case of national emergency the' President is authorized to suspend provisions of law prohibiting more than eight hours labor in any one day of persons engaged upon work covered by contracts with the United States: Provided, further, That the wages of persons employed upon such contracts shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours work, with overtime rates to be paid for at not less than time and one-half for all hours work in excess of eight hours.
Page 19 - July by the Bureau of Public Roads, of the US Department of Agriculture...
Page 6 - While population from 1880 to 1890 increased 246 per cent., the number of persons ten years of age and over engaged in gainful occupations increased 30.7 per cent.
Page 4 - The provision of section one that "eight hours shall * * * be deemed a day's work and the measure or standard of a day's work," leaves no doubt about the first proposition.
Page 36 - NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOOL MANUFACTURERS NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NATIONAL BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION NATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATION NATIONAL ERECTORS' ASSOCIATION NATIONAL FOUNDERS' ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IMPLEMENT AND VEHICLE ASSOCIATION NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL NATIONAL METAL TRADES ASSOCIATION RUBBER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
Page 43 - At half-past eleven, my idea of heaven is a nice cup of tea.» In the working day, the most important times for it are the breaks in the middle of the morning and in the middle of the afternoon and this makes the work bearable for many people. Later there's always a moment when somebody says: «I feel like a cup of tea.
Page 28 - Council of National Defense. An Analysis of the High Cost of Living Problem.
Page 10 - These facts support the general doctrine that the effect of lack of rests is far greater upon whatever is the physiological basis of interest, willingness, or tolerability, than upon the physiological basis of quantity and quality of product produced. Or, in other words, the mechanisms determining the mind's achievement are left able to do their customary work, but in such a condition that their customary action is less satisfying, so that (except for extrinsic motives) the individual would relax,...