The Labor Contract From Individual To Collective Bargaining Vol 2 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Labor Contract From Individual to Collective Bargaining, Vol. 2 In the evolution of the labor contract in the United States two historic facts confront us: the individual bargain of a cen tury ago and the collective agreement of the present day. Sep arated by less than a century's development, there is a transi tion from individual to associated action, and, although the individual contract necessarily persists, collective bargaining is coming more and more to have a part in our industrial life. A close investigation into our economic history reveals the unequal chronological development of our industries. This fact is the key to an understanding of our industrial develop ment. It is impossible to gain an historic conception of our industrial relations until we recognize not only the interdepend ence but also the separate development of our great industries. To lose sight of the changes which take place in each separate industry in its development from small beginnings until it be comes a well adjusted mechanism employing all of the economies incident to that particular business were as fatal to an under standing of the various stages of collective bargaining as to lose sight of the general advance of our industry as a whole. The past century presents a kaleidoscopic view of industries in their weak beginnings along with those grown to world wide importance, and in practically every decade the complex pro cess of industrial growth is illustrated by industries which co exist in their various stages of development. 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.