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Wage Rates and Working Time in the Bituminous Coal Industry, 1912-1922 : With a Summary of Rates for Separate Occupations in Each Coal District in the United States / Waldo E. Fisher, Anne Bezanson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT, WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND COMMERCE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. RESEARCH STUDIESPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1932]Copyright date: ©1932Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) : 20 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781512801743
  • 9781512801750
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.282233
LOC classification:
  • HD9546 .F5
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Charts, Map, And Plates -- Tables -- Appendix Tables -- Foreword -- Part I -- I. Introduction -- II. Factors and Conditions Influencing Wages, Employee Earnings, and Opportunity for Employment -- III. The Trend of the Rates of Tonnage Men -- IV. The Rates of Day Men -- V. Wage Rates and Changes in Living Costs -- VI. Opportunity for Employment -- VII. The Trends of Average Coal Values and Wage Rates -- VIII. Conclusions -- Part II -- IX. Methods Used in Preparing the Index Numbers of Wage Rates -- X. Methods Used in Preparing the Data on Opportunity for Employment -- Appendix -- Index
Summary: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Charts, Map, And Plates -- Tables -- Appendix Tables -- Foreword -- Part I -- I. Introduction -- II. Factors and Conditions Influencing Wages, Employee Earnings, and Opportunity for Employment -- III. The Trend of the Rates of Tonnage Men -- IV. The Rates of Day Men -- V. Wage Rates and Changes in Living Costs -- VI. Opportunity for Employment -- VII. The Trends of Average Coal Values and Wage Rates -- VIII. Conclusions -- Part II -- IX. Methods Used in Preparing the Index Numbers of Wage Rates -- X. Methods Used in Preparing the Data on Opportunity for Employment -- Appendix -- Index

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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