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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Strikes ix BELGIUM.1?From Belgium comes an official report in which the strikes and labour disputes from 1896 to 1900 are subjected to careful statistical analysis. The most interesting tables, perhaps, are those showing the mode of settlement aud result. A large majority of the disputes were settled by direct negotiations between the two parties, and for the most part were decided in favour of the masters. The figures given, show that the settlement of disputes through professional intermediaries, or by means of conciliation, worked out more favourably for labour than did the method of direct negotiation, but due regard should be paid to the fact that the instances were comparatively few. The following statement is extracted from the table on p. lx.vi. The men were successful in 16 per cent, of the cases settled by direct negotiation; in 37 per cent, of those in which either party acted through a representative; in 54 per cent, of those in which both parties acted through a representative; in 37 per cent, of those in which the Conseil du Travail intervened; and in 50 per cent. of those settled by conciliation. Out of the total number of strikes and disputes, the men were successful only in 19 per cent. B. L. Hutchins. The Howard Association Publications.?Since Mr. Edward Grubb's appointment as secretary of the Howard Association, there have been issued from the office of the society some dozen publications, all of considerable interest to the student of social economics. The most important as regards this country are pamphlets on Prison Industries, The Rural Exodus, and Notes on the Housing Problem: as regards light to be gained from abroad, the most important are? Methods of Penal Administration in the United States, The Probation System of America, and Cruelties in t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217079129 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217079121 |
| Weight | 1.24 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.85 In |
| List Price | $26.90 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 382 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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