Excerpt from Wages and Hours in American Industry, Vol. 45: July, 1914 July, 1921 The readjustments now proceeding in American industry make accurate, comprehensive and scientifically analyzed information on changes in wages, hours, and the volume of employment of timely interest and importance to business men, students of economics, and the public generally. To supply such information is the object of this report. It is the fourth of this nature published by this Board, much broader in scope than any of its predecessors, and more extensive than any wage survey heretofore made in this country. It presents reliable data portraying the hourly and weekly earnings, hours of plant operation and worker hours, as well as employment, from the pre-war period to the middle of 1921. It covers in special detail the period since June, 1920, when the prevailing depression began to show itself, and is therefore of great value in depicting the process of readjustment in the principal American industries during a period of declining business activity. Recognizing the general interest in the relation between wages and the cost of living, the report presents also a comparison between changes in money wages for all industries and changes in the cost of living for the country as a whole, during the period studied, thus showing the trend of real wages, which is the purchasing power of money wages, from 1914 onward. The present report rests on a broad and sound statistical foundation which will provide a basis for further studies by the Board of wages in American industry, and will make possible also a comparison with wage conditions in foreign countries. 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.