19th Century · English
The Wages Question
The Wages Question, by Francis Amasa Walker (1840–1897), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Econlib Editor's Notesprose
- 02The Wages Question, Part I, Chapter I Wages a Question in the Distribution of Wealth.prose
- 03Part I, Chapter II Nominal and Real Wages.prose
- 04Part I, Chapter III Nominal and Real Cost of Labor.prose
- 05Efficiency of Labor.prose
- 06Part I, Chapter IV the Degradation of Labor.prose
- 07Part I, Chapter V the Law of Diminishing Returns.prose
- 08Part I, Chapter VI Malthusianism in Wages—the Law of Population.prose
- 09Part I, Chapter VII NECESSARY WAGES.prose
- 10Part I, Chapter VIII the Wages of the Laborer Are Paid Out of the Product of His Industry.prose
- 11Part I, Chapter IX There Is No Wage-fund Irrespective of the Number and Industrial Quality of Laborers.prose
- 12Part II. Distribution, Part II, Chapter X the Problem of Distribution: Competition: The Diffusion Theory: The Economicalprose
- 13Competition.prose
- 14Part II, Chapter XI the Mobility of Labor.prose
- 15Part II, Chapter XII THE WAGES CLASS.prose
- 16The Exchange of Distributed for Undistributed Wealth.prose
- 17Part II, Chapter XIII the Capitalist Class: Returns of Capital: Rent and Interest.prose
- 18Part II, Chapter XIV the Employing Class: The Entrepreneur Function: The Profits of Business.prose
- 19Part II, Chapter XV Coöperation: Getting Rid of the Employing Class.prose
- 20Get Rid of the Entrepreneur.prose
- 21Part II, Chapter XVI the True Wages Question.prose
- 22Part II, Chapter XVII What May Place the Wages Class at a Disadvantage?prose
- 23Part II, Chapter XVIII What May Help the Wages Class in Its Competition for the Products of Industry.prose
- 24Woman's Wages.prose
- 25Part II, Chapter XIX May Any Advantage Be Acquired by the Wages Class Through Strikes or Trades-unions?prose
- 26Legislation Against Strikes and Combinations.prose
- 27Trades-unions.prose
- 28Concluding Remarks.prose