Review of reviews and world's work (1890) (14596730610)

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Title: Review of reviews and world's work

Year: 1890 (1890s)

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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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at tlie company calls ordinary daylabor. ... It tinds .American workmenca>ting their lot with the Slavs, and it hndspnl)lic opinion in the Pcnnsylv*ania steel districtbacking up tiuir joint cause. On the part of the employers, It may markthe introduction of a new s\stem of indus-trial administration. Mr. Kellogg writes: It (the strike) was caused by the rigorous,logical extreme to which the employing com-pany carried out what they conceive to be pro-gressive policies in multii)le production. Myunderstanding is that during the period of hardtimes they overhauled tlieir equipment in suchways as to make them less and less dependentupon trained men. They established a tracksvstem by which even a crude working forcepractically drives itself in turning out cars, anda pooling system of payment which keeps thelabor cost per car within a fixed charge to tliecompany and wliich unloads the hazards of lostlime and mistakes in construction largely uponthe men. .\part from the vagrant charges of

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Prom tLc Piiisburs UhtJtch. A GROUP OF AMERICA.N STRIKERS AT .MKEES ROCKS. 354 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REl/IElVS.

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1890

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