Labour policy—false and true : $b A study in economic history and industrial economicsMacassey, Lynden Livingston
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Labour policy—false and true : $b A study in economic history and industrial economics
Macassey, Lynden Livingston
Industrial policy -- Great Britain; Labor economics -- Great Britain; Labour Party (Great Britain)
Transport Workers’ Federation, Contentions of, at Dockers’ Inquiry,
273
“Treasury” Agreements, 1915, Repudiation by Clyde Engineers, 79, 267;
Negotiation of, 135, 136;
General failure of, 137;
Enforcement of, by Munitions Act, 137;
Purpose of, 135
Trusts, Report of Committee on, 254
Unemployment (_see also_ Export Credits Scheme; Poor Law Relief; Road
Schemes; Trade Facilities Act), Injurious effect of, 215;
Total prevention impossible, 126;
Provision against, essential for contentment in industry, 256;
What can be done, 256;
Labour policy for, 106-123;
its unsoundness, 124;
Government policy for, 175-208;
Labour’s refusal to co-operate, 117
Unemployment after the War, 1917, Memorandum on, 107
Unemployment Insurance, Need of proper Scheme, 257;
Insurance by State, 259;
Insurance by industry or industries, 259;
Insurance by firms, 261;
The State Insurance Scheme, 176-187;
cost of, 208;
Acts of Parliament, _see_ Part I
Value, Marxian Fallacy of, 283
Wages, Legal minimum agricultural, 90;
and prices, increase of, 139;
and the community, 273;
are higher wages practicable, 273;
in unorganized industries, 250;
Misconceptions, as to, 212;
Relation to cost of living, 140;
Remuneration of the worker, 271;
Settlement of, 275;
Statutory minimum, 149;
Systems of remuneration, 275;
12½ per cent. bonus, 139, 252, 273;
Uniform national, 271;
Wage relationships among the workers, 272;
What are fair, 276
War Aims, 1917, Memorandum on, 107
War Wealth Committee, Report of, 240
Whitley Committee, 56, 264
Whitley Councils, 143, 264
Whitley Report, 1918, Labour Addendum to, 56
Work, Workers low conception of, 217
Work or Maintenance, 106, 111, 118, 122, 124
Work, Right to, Bills to confer, 124;
Unsoundness of claim, 124;
Failure in France, 125;
Impossibility in practice, 126
Workers, Ignorance about industry, 212;
and about Wages, 212;
Discontent and the causes, 213;
Effect of bad environment on, 214;
Fear of unemployment, 215;
Dissatisfaction with status, 215;
Belief in agitation, 216;
Desire for improvement, 216;
Low conception of work, 217;
Suspicion of employers, 218;
Relationship of, to Trade Union, 219;
to community, 220;
Three dominant aspirations, 222;
Relationship of, to capital, 231, 256, 263, 271, 279, 280, 285, 286;
to administrative staff, 232;
to one another, 232;
_Fallacious views on_:
Co-operation, 281;
Capital, 282;
Value, 283;
“Secret Fund,” 292;
“Passing it on,” 293;
Restricting output, 294;
Time- and labour-saving appliances, 297;
Payment by results, 298;
Simplification of process, 299
Works’ Committees, 143, 265, 266;
Slow progress of, 266;
Success on the Clyde, 267
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