. The unemployment problem ... National industrial conference board. they pro-duce is initiated either by the employees or by the employers,for the purpose of forcing the other side to yield the pointat issue. This form of unemployment is not involuntary;nevertheless, it interferes with both employer and employee,stopping the income of the employee and reducing the pro-ductiveness of industry and the buying power of the com-munity. The causes of idleness among organized wage-earners inMassachusetts and New York State are classified in the re-ports of those states as labor disputes (strikes and
. The unemployment problem ... National industrial conference board. they pro-duce is initiated either by the employees or by the employers,for the purpose of forcing the other side to yield the pointat issue. This form of unemployment is not involuntary;nevertheless, it interferes with both employer and employee,stopping the income of the employee and reducing the pro-ductiveness of industry and the buying power of the com-munity. The causes of idleness among organized wage-earners inMassachusetts and New York State are classified in the re-ports of those states as labor disputes (strikes and lockouts),disability, and lack of work. The latter phrase is a termused to cover all causes except the two first named. Strikesand lockouts and disability together cause about a fourth ofthe idleness of organized wage-earners in these two conditions are shown in the following table and inCharts 5 and 6. CHART 5: CAUSES OF IDLENESS AMONG ORGANIZED WAGE-EARNERS IN NEW YORK STATE MEAN YEARLY PERCENTAGES, 1904-19151 (National Industrial Conference Board). 1904 1905 IS06 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 19)3 1914 1919 Based on data from New York State Department of Labor. 36 Digitized by Microsoft® CHART 6: CAUSES OF IDLENESS AMONG ORGANIZED WAGE-EARNERS IN MASSACHUSETTS MEAN YEARLY PERCENTAGES, 1908-19201 (National Industrial Conference Board) PFDCCNT 50 4S 40 3530 15
Size: 1929px × 1295px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthornational, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookyear1922
