Chapter 19: Methods of Industrial Remuneration

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QUESTIONS.

1. With increasing division of labor is there greater or less
opportunity for the payment of laborers according to the piece-wage
plan?

2. Discuss the following statement: Under the piece-work system the
foreman looks out for the quality and the operative for the quantity
of the work; under the time-wage system the foreman looks out for the
quantity and the laborer for the quality of the work.

3. What remedy has the foreman for an inefficient laborer working
under the time-wage system?

4. Is time- or piece-work best adapted to the following kinds of
laborers: coal-miners, coopers, farm-hands, printers, engravers,
shoe-factory hands, railroad brakemen, telegraph operators?

5. Since under the piece-work system a man is paid only for what he
does is there any reason for discharging a workman employed under this
plan whose efficiency falls below the average?

6. Describe any case of profit-sharing you may have seen in operation.

7. In the case of a coöperative general store do economic profits
emerge? If so, where do they go?

8. If you have seen a coöperative store in operation tell what was its
success.

9. Compare and explain producers' and consumers' coöperation, showing
the difficulties and advantages.