Journal Article Membership of American Trade Unions, 1897–1914 Get access The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 30, Issue 4, August 1916, Pages 837–846, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884245 Published: 01 August 1916
The National Founders' Association is typical of those American employers' associations which advocate the open shop, 353. — Development of the policy of the Association, 354. — Methods of defending members against the demands of the Union, 357. — Administration of the defense system, 364. — Classification of membership in the Association, 370. — Requirements for admission, 372. — Government and financial system, 377. — Constructive activities, 383.
Introduction, 738. — I. Foreign loans to China, 740. — The international "money trust" described, 741. — Effect on interests of borrowers and lenders, 747. — Breakdown under pressure of competition, 749. — Critical comparison of the Taft and Wilson policies, 758. — II. Internal development of Chinese finance since the Revolution. The escape from bankruptcy, 1912–14, 762. — Political basis of the Chinese financial system, 765. — Influences tending toward improvement, 766. — The political and fiscal reorganization, 767. — First loans from Chinese lenders, 768. — Reform of salt administration, 771. — Fiscal economy, 774. — Political changes underlying these reforms, 775. — Summary of conclusions, 1912–16, 777.
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Necessarily slow development of the system, 628. — Organization, number and location of banks, 630. — Opening of reserve banks and reduction of required reserve of member banks, 637. — Rediscounting operations, 641. — Open market operations, 645. — United States bonds and municipal notes, 646. — Trade and bank acceptances, 647. — The nation-wide check collection system, 653. — State banks and the reserve system, 662.
I. Introductory. The economic foundation of differentiation, 682. — II. No natural tendency to uniformity in prices; uniformity sustained by the moral force of public opinion, 683. — III. The public the judge of homogeneity of goods or services, differences being the occasion for price differences; electrical examples, 686. — Homogeneity in relation to joint cost, 687. — Degrees of jointness; illustrations, 688. — IV. Jointcost v. monopoly as the basis of differentiation, 690. — Differentiation might develop largely under competition, 691. — Danger of arguing from a single “cause,” 693. — V. Wholesale discounts usually differential, and a differential element in retail price-fixing, 695. — VI. Deterioration and cost often in proportion to time rather than to use, 696. — Fixed-capital cost is of this nature, 698. — VII. Service the ultimate standard in judging differentiation, 699. — This principle opposed to rates lower than separable cost, as well as in favor of a differential treatment of general or joint-cost, 700. — Suggestiveness of electrical rates for impersonal methods, 701. — Public policy, 702.
The original constituents of Amalgamated, 388. — Absorption of Boston & Montana and Butte & Boston, 389. — United Copper, 391. — Relations of United Metals, Utah Consolidated, and International Smelting and Refining Company, 392. — Purchase of properties by Anaconda, 395. — Expansion of International; its absorption and dissolution, 397. — Dissolution of Amalgamated, 402. — Conclusions, 406.
The American ideal in education: training for citizenship in a democracy, 88. — Importance of economics to this end, 90. — The borrowed German ideal, leading to research and lectures, has done harm, 91. — The teacher the central figure, 93. — Multitude of recent aids to teaching economics, 96. — Outlines, selections, materials, 97. — Questions and Problems, 100. — The serviceableness of these devices likely to be overestimated, 102. — Effectiveness in teaching, not research, should be the main aim of the college, 105.
Journal Article Commons and Andrews' Principles of Labor Legislation Get access Robert F. Foerster Robert F. Foerster Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 30, Issue 3, May 1916, Pages 566–575, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885239 Published: 01 May 1916
I. Statistics of trade union membership, 487. — American Federation of Labor, 487. — Building Trades Department, 489. — New York Department of Labor, 489. — Union records, 490. — Local unions, 491. — Female, 492. — Canada, 492. — II. Statistics of occupations, 493. — Classification of trade union membership, 495. — III. Membership of American trade unions, 496. — IV. Organization by industry, 497. — Female laborers, 501. — Employing and salaried classes, 502. — Classes difficult to organize, 502. — Subdivisions of industry, 504. — Immigrant laborers, 507. — Industries in which ownership is concentrated, 507. — V. Organization by occupation, 508. — Female laborers, 514. — Skilled and unskilled laborers, 515. — VI. Statistical reform, 517.