Sumner H Slichter

Biographic Data

ID1064726
NAMESumner H Slichter
GIVEN NAMESSumner H
FAMILY NAMESlichter
SIGNATURESLICHTER S H
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1916
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX1

  • Potentials of the American Economy

    John T Dunlop, Sumner H SlichterBOOKPotentials of the American Economy2013

  • The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Management

    Lloyd G Reynolds, Sumner H Slichter et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1962

  • The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Management

    Neil W Chamberlain, Neil Chamberlain et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1961

  • Growth and Stability

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1953

  • Notes on the Structure of Wages

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1950

    N EITHER wage rates nor hourly earnings represent the price of labor that is, the amount which the employer pays for a given amount and kind of service or the amount which employees receive for doing a given kind of work under given conditions.' Consequently, it is not surprising that there are large variations both in the rates paid by different plants within the same locality for jobs nominally at least within the same occupation, and in the ho…

  • Refreshing Reading

    Edgar L Warren, Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Journal of Higher Education1950

  • Raising the Price of Labor as a Method of Increasing Employment

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1949

  • Basic Criteria Used in Wage Negotiations

    Robert Satter, Sumner H SlichterARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1949

  • The Problem of Inflation

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1948

  • The Challenge of Industrial Relations

    Paul A Samuelson, Sumner H SlichterARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1948

  • The Problem of Wage Policy in the Spring of 1947

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1947

    a whole rose 32 per cent.4 The smallest increase shown by any one of these industries was I4 per cent, and the maximum 49 per cent. The rise for the entire group was only 40 per cent of that for manufacturing workers. The increase for public school teachers was but io per cent from I939-40 to I942-43; for white collar employees in federal executive service, I5 per cent from I939 to 1943; for white collar employees of other governments, 9 per cent…

  • Some Economic Consequences of Science

    Open AccessSumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1947

  • The Challenge of Industrial Relations

    John Van Sickle, Sumner H SlichterARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1947

  • Report to the Governor of Massachusetts on Labor-Management Relations

    Open AccessSumner H Slichter, Douglas V Brown et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1947

    Sumner H. Slichter, Douglas V. Brown, Thomas E. Shortell, Harold D. Ulrich, Anthony J. de Andrade, Jack Hurvich, Clarence G. McDavitt, Seabury Stanton, James E. Wall, Report to the Governor of Massachusetts on Labor-Management Relations, ILR Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct., 1947), pp. 110-128

  • By Sumner H. Slighter

    Open AccessSumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1945

  • Wanted

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEPublic Opinion Quarterly1944Cited by: 1

    A PLANT with a force of a thousand men does not simply have a thousand individuals. A thousand men constitute a little society.” For the problems of this little society, Sumner Slichter proposes the solution of all organized societies—the “administrative approach.” For many years Mr. Slichter, Lamont University Professor of Economics at Harvard University, has been a leader of an important group in American economic thought in and outside of univ…

  • Foreign Trade and Postwar Stability

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEForeign Affairs1943

  • Union Policies and Industrial Management

    P Sargant Florence, F Pinet et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1943

  • Union Policies and Industrial Management

    Sumner H Slichter, Orwell De R Foenander et al.ARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal1942

  • The Downturn of 1937

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1938

  • The Period 1919-1936 in the United States

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1937

  • Towards Stability. The Problem of Economic Balance

    Erich Roll, Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Economic Journal1936

  • The Government and Collective Bargaining

    Open AccessSumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1935Cited by: 1

    L BOR organizations began as illegal conspiracies. Only by persistently and courageously, and I think one may even say conscientiously, breaking the law did wage earners win the right to organize. By gradual steps, however, they eventually achieved in several important respects a preferred position under the law. Both legislatures and courts came to recognize that the great disparity in bargaining power between the individual wage earner and the …

  • The Immediate Unemployment Problem

    Open AccessSumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1933

  • A Penetrating Analysis

    Sumner H SlichterARTICLEThe Journal of Higher Education1933

    A Penetrating Analysis: The World's Economic Crisis, Halley Stewart Lectures." The Journal of Higher Education, 4(3), pp. 162–163