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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Fisher, Waldo E.,; Bezanson, Anne,
• MitwirkendeR: Tryon, F. G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1932]; ©1932
• Year of Publication: 1932
• Language: English
• Series: INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT, WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND COMMERCE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. RESEARCH STUDIES
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 20 illus.

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.

Table of 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