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Wages / Maurice Dobb.

By:

Dobb, Maurice, 1900 - 1976 [author]

Contributor(s):

Guillebaud, C. W. (Claude William) [author of introduction, etc.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Cambridge economic handbooksPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1959; Digswell Place : James Nisbet & Co., 1959Edition: Fourth rev. edDescription: xv, 201 pages : tables ; 19 cmSubject(s):

Wages

LOC classification:

HD 4909 .D6 1959

Partial contents:

Chapter I. The wage-system -- Chapter II. Wages and the standard of life -- Chapter III. The payment of wages -- Chapter IV. Theories of wages -- Chapter V. Wages and bargaining-power -- Chapter VI. Wage differences -- Chapter VII. Trade unionism and wages -- Chapter VIII. The State and Wages -- Index.

Summary: "To start by studying the differences which distinguish the present-day setting of our problem from the past seems to be the most promising means of disclosing what is important, as well as an essential preliminary to appreciating correctly such true similarities as exist. If we examine the features which distinguish wages as they are paid to-day from other ways in which work in times past was performed and paid for, and seek to define the character of the present wage-system in these terms, we shall see that some fundamental distinctions exist which give a unique character to the actual problems with which the modern industrial system is faced." -- From chapter I.

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Includes index.

"To start by studying the differences which distinguish the present-day setting of our problem from the past seems to be the most promising means of disclosing what is important, as well as an essential preliminary to appreciating correctly such true similarities as exist. If we examine the features which distinguish wages as they are paid to-day from other ways in which work in times past was performed and paid for, and seek to define the character of the present wage-system in these terms, we shall see that some fundamental distinctions exist which give a unique character to the actual problems with which the modern industrial system is faced." -- From chapter I.

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