Wages

by Maurice Dobb

This handbook compares pay-scale determination factors of the past to those of the present. It discusses the relationship of working-class wages to the standard of living, the methodology of wage payment, and the resolution of the optimum length of the work day in different trades. Maurice Dobb summarizes the influence of trade unions and the government, and defines the role of government in instituting a legal minimum wage in particular industries.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1928

About the author

Maurice Herbert Dobb was a British economist at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is remembered as one of the pre-eminent Marxist economists of the 20th century.