Labor Problems: A Text BookMacmillan, 1905 - 579 pages Introduction: The labor problem and its genesis -- Woman and child labor / by H. L. S -- Immigration / by H. L. S -- The sweating systems / by H. L. S -- Poverty earnings and unemployment / by T. S. A -- Strikes and boycotts / by T. S. A -- Labor and organizations and associations / by T. S. A -- The agencies of industrial peace / by T. S. A -- Profit sharing / by H. L. S -- Cooperations / by H. L. S -- Industrial education / by H. L. S -- Labor laws / by T. S. A -- The material progress of the wage earning classes / by T. S. A -- Appendix A. Women and child labor laws in the United States -- Appendix B. Profit sharing in the United States -- Appendix C. Earnings and unemployment in 1901. |
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Page 376 - Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one : and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
Page 473 - ... the proprietors of these ,establishments and their operatives do not stand upon an equality, and that their interests are, to a certain extent, conflicting. The former naturally desire to obtain as much labor as possible from their...
Page 221 - The latter was organized in 1881 as the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States of America and Canada, and included 95 organizations having a combined membership of 262,000.
Page 105 - Chinese laborer who has a lawful wife, child, or parent in the United States, or property therein of the value of one thousand dollars, or debts of like amount due him and pending settlement.
Page 187 - The accepted definition of a conspiracy is, a combination of two or more persons by concerted action to accomplish a criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some purpose not in itself criminal or unlawful by criminal or unlawful means.
Page 145 - Families whose total earnings would be sufficient for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency were it not that some portion of it is absorbed by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful.
Page 473 - The legislature has also recognized the fact, which the experience of legislators in many states has corroborated, that the proprietors of these establishments and their operatives do not stand upon an equality, and that their interests are, to a certain extent, conflicting.
Page 473 - ... the liberty of the citizen, have been found to be no longer necessary; that restrictions which had formerly been laid upon the conduct of individuals, or of classes of individuals, had proved detrimental to their interests, while, upon the other hand, certain other classes of persons (particularly those engaged in dangerous or unhealthful employments) have been found to be in need of additional protection.
Page 320 - Proceedings in the Court shall not be impeached or held bad for want of form, nor shall the same be removable to any Court by certiorari or otherwise ; and no award, order, or proceeding of the Court shall be liable to be challenged, appealed against, reviewed, quashed, or called in question by any Court of judicature on any account whatsoever.
Page 470 - It cannot be deemed a part of the liberty of any contractor that he be allowed to do public work in any mode he may choose to adopt, without regard to the wishes of the state. On the contrary, it belongs to the state, as the guardian and trustee for its people, and having control of its affairs, to prescribe the conditions upon which it will permit public work to be done on its behalf, or on behalf of its municipalities. No court has authority to review its action in that respect. Regulations on...