Trade Unionism Unemployment Wages Prices And Cost Of Living In Australia 1891 1912

Author : George Handley Knibbs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333513948
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Trade Unionism, Unemployment, Wages, Prices, and Cost of Living in Australia, 1891-1912 written by George Handley Knibbs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trade Unionism, Unemployment, Wages, Prices, and Cost of Living in Australia, 1891-1912: Prepared Under Instructions From the Hon. King O'malley, M. P., Minister of State for Home Affairs It is gratifying to note that the response of the Union Secretaries Was, on the whole, very satisfactory, and the thanks of the Bureau are due to many who went to a considerable amount of trouble and per sonal inconvenience in order to obtain from the books of their Associa tions and from other sources the desired information for past years as far back as 1891. At the outset, the progress of the work was some what hindered by the suspicions and apprehensions of officials of a few labour organisations, but this hindrance practically vanished, as soon as it was realised that the affairs of any single Union would not be disclosed in the published results, and that the investigations had no regard to the prejudices of any political designs, but were being made solely for general statistical purposes. In one or two cases demands for the information had to be issued under the penal pro visions of the Census and Statistics Act 1905. It will be seen herein after that returns have been received from every trade union in the Commonwealth. 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.