Just now there is a good bit of fleecing going on in this fashionboth of the public and the wage-workers.

If she were an ordinary wage-worker, we should say of her that her occupation was an unstandardized one, and that individually she was too dependent upon the personal goodwill of another.

The wage question is at bottom a question of more or less life for the wage-worker.

The average enterpriser's gain was the average wage-worker's loss.

Changing relations between employers and wage-workers.

#Changing relations between employers and wage-workers.

To-day most wage-workers in large establishments have no hope of rising out of their positions.

In legal reasoning it is being recognized that the individual wage-worker, even the adult male, is not in a position to judge the number of hours he ought, for his own good, to work, and is unable to fix the length of his own working day.

A wage-worker may be permitted to sell his daily net fund of working powerhis usancebut not his life. § 9.

In England this was done mainly by the justices of the peace and, in the main was directed toward limiting the demands of the wage-workers.]

But the usual result is told by the fact that such stores are often known as "truck stores" and "pluck-me stores," and heartily disliked by the wage-workers.

A considerable part of the total in an ordinary year may be set aside as "normal" in the sense that it is allowed for in the wage-workers' plans; and a part of it may even be desirable.

Unemployment is the state of a wage-worker for the time out of a job.

The very inertia of wages, however, in new price situations makes the wage-workers resist more vigorously such a policy of wage concessions.

Fluctuations occur in the plans both of employers and of wage-workers as a result of age, of removal, for reasons more or less non-economic, of desire to change occupations, of variations in health, and of countless other causes.

Finally, unemployment insurance, which has already been applied by parliamentary legislation in Great Britain to a group of nearly 3,000,000 wage-workers, is an indispensable and highly hopeful measure of relief.

They as yet touch only the outer fringe of the problem, but they testify to the need and to the increasing desire of the wage-workers for insurance of this kind.

It is believed that at least 4 per cent of the income of wage-workers now is expended for the care of sickness and for burial insurance.

To leave any form of insurance optional, or elective, with either employers or wage-workers, is to fail of the main purpose in a large proportion of the individual cases where it is most needed, and to increase the expense to those that are included.

It is usually assumed by employers, by wage-workers, and by others in the discussion of the subject, that the burden remains and is borne by those who directly pay the premiums, and just in proportion to their payments.

Pressure of immigration upon native wage-workers.

#Pressure of immigration upon native wage-workers.

American wage-workers, however, have made few and feeble efforts in this direction.

The one was "the labor theory of value," by which all profits and incomes from investment were shown to be robbery of the wage-workers.

The one is the low-paid industrial wage-worker; the other is the sympathetic person of education or of wealth (or of both), who has become suddenly aroused to the misery in our industrial order.