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THE SETTLEMENT OF WAGE DISPUTES

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THE SETTLEMENT OF WAGE DISPUTES

by

HERBERT FEIS, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in Economics
University of Kansas

New York
The MacMillan Company
1921
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Printed in the United States of America

Copyright, 1921,
by The MacMillan Company.

Set up and printed. Published October, 1921.
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.

To

37 Mellen St.

PREFACE

"The Settlement of Wage Disputes" falls naturally into two almost equal
parts: the first an account of the present industrial situation in the
United States, and of the factors which govern American wage levels at
the present time; the second an attempt to formulate principles which
might serve as the basis of a policy of wage settlement for the country.
The proposals made in the second part are based on the theoretical
analysis of the first part.

Certain chapters in the first part (III and IV) may prove difficult for
the ordinary reader. They are intended to be merely an analysis of a
particular set of facts and tendencies--those which affect the present
wage situation in the United States, or may affect it in the near
future. Such an analysis of a particular set of facts is all that
economic theory can successfully accomplish.

This book was first projected in the summer of 1914. The Dress and Waist
Industry of New York City had set up a Board of Protocol Standards to
settle wage disputes. The late Robert C. Valenti