Public Regulation of the Rate of WagesH.W. Wilson Company, 1917 - 74 pages |
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... result of this dreaded visit . The immediate eco- nomic effects - a dearth of labor , an excessive enhancement of wages , and a serious difficulty in gathering the harvest - were , on the face of them , appallingly ruinous ; but in ...
... result of this dreaded visit . The immediate eco- nomic effects - a dearth of labor , an excessive enhancement of wages , and a serious difficulty in gathering the harvest - were , on the face of them , appallingly ruinous ; but in ...
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... result of the Plague , to cheat him of his wages , to shackle him to the soil , and to de- grade him into hopeless penury . Whether the process of de- basement was conscious and deliberate or merely the unfortunate result of mistaken ...
... result of the Plague , to cheat him of his wages , to shackle him to the soil , and to de- grade him into hopeless penury . Whether the process of de- basement was conscious and deliberate or merely the unfortunate result of mistaken ...
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... result Sir Robert Peel put through Parliament the " Health and Morals Apprentices Act , 1802 , " regulating the employment of apprentices in textile mills and factories . In 1819 another forward step was taken by the passage of a ...
... result Sir Robert Peel put through Parliament the " Health and Morals Apprentices Act , 1802 , " regulating the employment of apprentices in textile mills and factories . In 1819 another forward step was taken by the passage of a ...
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Rinehart John Swenson. a similar law for men might not be upheld . The result has been that of the eleven States that have adopted minimum wage laws not one has included men . The eleven States are : Massachusetts , Oregon , California ...
Rinehart John Swenson. a similar law for men might not be upheld . The result has been that of the eleven States that have adopted minimum wage laws not one has included men . The eleven States are : Massachusetts , Oregon , California ...
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... result , and ill health leads to inefficiency , and inefficiency to still lower wages ; and so these unfortunate women go the weary rounds of this vicious circle whose final stages too often are some public insti- tution and a pauper's ...
... result , and ill health leads to inefficiency , and inefficiency to still lower wages ; and so these unfortunate women go the weary rounds of this vicious circle whose final stages too often are some public insti- tution and a pauper's ...
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Page 24 - It may be said in a general way that the police power extends to all the great public needs. ... It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 37 - 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. The former naturally desire to obtain as much labor as possible from their...
Page 37 - While it may be conceded that, generally speaking, among the inalienable rights of the citizen is that of the liberty of contract, yet such liberty is not absolute and universal. It is within the undoubted power of government to restrain some individuals from all contracts, as well as all individuals from some contracts. It may deny to all the right to contract for the purchase or sale of lottery tickets; to the minor the right to assume any obligations, except for the necessaries of existence ;...
Page 38 - ... from all contracts, as well as all individuals from some contracts. It may deny to all the right to contract for the purchase or sale of lottery tickets; to the minor the right to assume any obligations, except for the necessaries of existence; to the common carrier the power to make any contract releasing himself from negligence, and. indeed, may restrain all engaged in any employment from any contract in the course of that employment which is against public policy. The possession of this power...
Page 24 - Police power is the name given to that inherent sovereignty which it is the right and duty of the government or its agents to exercise whenever public policy, in a broad sense, demands, for the benefit of society at large, regulations to guard its morals, safety, health, order, or to insure in any respect such economic conditions as an advancing civilization of a highly complex character requires.
Page 60 - There can be no equality of opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they can not alter, control, or singly cope with.
Page 37 - But the fact that both parties are of full age and competent to contract does not necessarily deprive the State of the power to interfere where the parties do not stand upon an equality, or where the public health demands that one party to the contract shall be protected against himself. "The State still retains an interest in his welfare, however reckless he may be. The whole is no greater than the sum of all the parts, and when the individual health, safety and welfare are sacrificed or neglected,...
Page 60 - We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through.
Page 40 - is between the delegation of power to make the law, which necessarily involves a discretion as to what it shall be, and conferring authority or discretion as to its execution, to be exercised under and in pursuance of the law. The first can not be done; to the latter no valid objection can be made.
Page 36 - Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other Amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the State, develop its resources, and add to its wealth and prosperity.