Wages, Incentives and Living Standards

J. Wilczynski
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J. Wilczynski: Royal Military College, Duntroon

Chapter 7 in Comparative Industrial Relations, 1983, pp 133-156 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Wages, much more so than other prices, are central to industrial relations, and in fact go to the very foundations of social relationships. In pre-industrial societies wages were basically an outcome of custom, in many cases moderated by social morality, and that system remained basically unquestioned for a long time. But the Industrial Revolution upset that apparent inertness and passivity and wages have become an object of ideological controversy.

Keywords: Socialist Country; Social Consumption; Capitalist World; Material Incentive; Capitalist Country (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06407-6_7

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