Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 47
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VII. LABOR PROBLEMS OF T H E READJUSTMENT PERIOD The genesis and development of labor problems 1. 2. 3. 4. The evolution of modern industrial society Labor and production Labor and distribution Analysis of the labor problem Recent tendencies in the labor problem 1. Conditions incident to the war (a) Temporary conditions: Dislocation of the labor supply, labor shortage, breaking down of labor safeguards, acute industrial unrest, etc. (b) Permanent results of the war: Greater solidarity of the ranks of labor, development of the idea of industrial democracy, greater demands of labor for a larger share of the differential, international cooperation between labor forces. 2. Labor problems of the reconstruction period (a) Redistribution of the labor supply highly concentrated in war industries. (b) Unemployment due to the demobilization of the military and naval forces and the slowing up of industry. (c) Industrial unrest accentuated by the lack of employment, the continuation of high prices, and the insistence of labor unions for better standards of pay, hours and conditions of work. (d) The child labor problem (e) The woman labor problem (f) Autocratic control of Industry (g) The training of skilled labor, in which we were found wanting during the war period (h) The adjustment of wages to the price level
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