A Dividend to Labor: A Study of Employers Welfare Institutions (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Gilman, Nicholas Paine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330389913 ISBN 13: 9781330389911

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from A Dividend to Labor: A Study of Employers Welfare Institutions

In Part III under the heading A Direct Divi dend to Labor, I have supplemented my treatise on profit sharing (which it has not seemed feasible to revise) with such later information as the lapse of ten years renders desirable. With the appendixes Nos. II. And III., this part may serve to set forth the later history of the system.

To the many business firms and corporations at home and abroad with whom I have corresponded, or whose establishments I have visited, while preparing this work, my sincere and hearty thanks are due for their unwearied courtesy. As I write these closing lines, I am also mindful of two great publicists, too soon departed, to whom I owe much of light and leading, and whose labors in the cause of industrial peace this volume would fain help to continue in some degree - Francis A. Walker of Boston, and Charles Robert of Paris.

Whether the dividend to labor which the economist approves and the employer establishes be direct or indirect, I trust that this book may serve to increase that deeper consciousness of kind, that more truly human sympathy between employers and employed.

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Excerpt from A Dividend to Labor: A Study of Employers Welfare Institutions

This volume has a scientific and a practical aim. Frequently, since the publication of my work on profit sharing in 1889, I have been forcibly made aware of the difficulty of getting reliable information concerning the "welfare-institutions" which numerous employers of labor maintain for their employees. A characteristic note of most of these arrangements is that the liberal-minded employer making them stops short of plans which would demand a change in the existing wages system. Practically they result, however, in an "indirect dividend to labor," as I have called it. They depend for their existence upon realized profits, made in the usual way, and appropriated in part by the employer for the benefit of his work-people, purely at his own discretion and usually under no agreement with the employees. Such welfare-institutions form an intermediate stage between a wages system under which the workman receives his agreed wages and nothing more, directly or indirectly, and a profit-sharing agreement according to which he would receive, directly and regularly, a certain share of the profits made by the establishment.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330389913
• ISBN 13: 9781330389911
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 418
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