Chapters on Machinery and Labor: IV. The Introduction of Machinery and Trade-Union Policy

George E. Barnett

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1926, vol. 40, issue 2, 209-231

Abstract: The conflicting interests of the trade union in the introduction of machinery, 209. — Trade-union policies, 210. — Opposition to machinery, 211. — Reduction in wage rates of hand-workers, 214. — Employment of hand-workers as machine operators, 218. — Reduction of inflow into the trade, 221. — Distribution of work, 224. — Conclusions, 227.

Date: 1926
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