Chapters on Machinery and LaborI. The Introduction of Semi-automatic Bottle Machines

George E. Barnett

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1925, vol. 39, issue 3, 337-356

Abstract: Stages in the introduction of machinery for the manufacture of glass bottles, 337. — I. The technical character of the semi-automatic machine, 339. — II. The rate of introduction, 341. — The potential displacement involved, 341. — The actual displacement, 342. — III. The jurisdiction of the unions concerned, 344. — The opposition of the Flint Glass Workers to the introduction of the machine, 345. — The jurisdictional conflict between the Glass Bottle Blowers and the Flint Glass Workers, 348. — IV. The machine policy of the Glass Bottle Blowers, 351. — V. Effect of the machine on wages and hours of labor, 353. — Estimate of the validity of the policy of the Glass Bottle Blowers, 356.

Date: 1925
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