Chapter 21: Public Regulation of Hours and Wages

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QUESTIONS.

1. If you can do more work in two hours than in one, can you do more
continuously in sixteen consecutive hours than in eight?

2. What determines the maximum study time for the earnest student?

3. When does an industrious man stop working on his own farm, and why?

4. If production is reduced one-fourth by shorter hours, is "work
made" to that degree for the unemployed?

5. Defend the minimum wage policy from the workman's point of view,
and state the employers' objections thereto.

6. Suppose it were proposed to establish by law a universal nine-hour
day for men.

(a) Under what conditions would you consider such a law socially
beneficial?

(b) What other agencies might accomplish the ends which such a law is
designed to effect?

(c) What are the chief social and economic effects which you would
expect from such a law?