Economics Volume II: Modern Economic ProblemsFetter, Frank A. (Frank Albert)
General
Economics Volume II: Modern Economic Problems
Fetter, Frank A. (Frank Albert)
Economics
[Footnote 12: The few exceptions to this statement are mostly recent;
such as the recognition of the unions in New Zealand in 1894 as
parties in the plan of compulsory arbitration, and in Great Britain
in 1909 as agencies through which unemployment insurance may be
administered.]
[Footnote 13: As appeared in ch. 20.]
CHAPTER 22
OTHER PROTECTIVE LABOR AND SOCIAL LEGISLATION
§ 1. Evils of early factory conditions. § 2. Improvement of factory
conditions. § 3. Limitation of the wage contract. § 4. Usury laws. § 5.
Public inspection of standards and of foods. § 6. Charity, and control of
vice. § 7. City growth and the housing problem. § 8. Good housing
legislation. § 9. General grounds of this social legislation. § 10.
Training in the trades. § 11. Prevalence of unemployment. § 12. Evils of
unemployment. § 13. Definition of unemployment. § 14. Individual
maladjustments causing unemployment. § 15. Maladjustment of wages
causing unemployment. § 16. Individual maladjustment in finding jobs,
§ 17. Public employment offices. § 18. Fluctuations of industry causing
unemployment. § 19. Remedies for seasonal fluctuations. § 20. Reducing
cyclical unemployment and its effects.
§ 1. #Evils of early factory conditions#. The time is but brief in
the life of nations since the main manufacturing processes, now mostly
conducted in great factories, were carried on in or near the homes
of the workers. This change has been reflected in the meaning of
"manufactures," which first meant literally goods made by hand but now
conveys the thought of goods made by machinery. The craftsmen worked
alone in their own homes or with the help of their wives and children.
If the master craftsmen had other helpers these were usually lodged
and fed in the homes, and were taught by the side of the masters' own
families. The old English law of master and servant was the labor law
of that time as, to some extent, it still is to-day in Great Britain
and America. The living and working conditions of the wage-workers
were in general the same as those of the master himself and of his own
family; and this was the best possible guarantee that the conditions
would be kept up to the best standards of that time. The same change
in industrial relations that led to the rise of the organized labor
movement[1] revealed new and often horrible neglect and evil in
and about the factories. They had been erected with no thought of
sanitation, safety, and decency for the workers.
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