P G Macarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 688241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P G Macarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | P G |
| FAMILY NAME | Macarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MACARTHY P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canada Department of Labour, Ottawa, Ontario. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Wages for Unskilled Work, and Margins for Skill, Australia, 1901–21
Wages in Australia, 1891 to 1914
The Living Wage in Australia
In contemporary societies the obligation to exercise some control of national economic and social affairs is judged to be the natural order of things. In the more advanced countries, the government inter venes to control the many divergent forces in the process of industriali sation, whilst in those at earlier stages of modernisation, the State's role is to somehow gear society up to a higher standard of living?and fast. In the nineteenth century…
Victorian Trade Union Statistics, 1889-1914
Thanks to the diligence of colonial/State and Commonwealth statisticians, quantitative measurement of many socio-economic phenomena is largely a question of turning up the appropriate sections of the Year Books or Statistical Registers, transcribing data therefrom, and then setting about the task of solving the many difficult problems of continuity and comparability. Trade union statistics were not neglected; at least, not by the Commonwealth and…
Justice Higgins and the Harvester Judgement
Labor and the Living Wage 1890–1910
It is clear that the Australian labour movement did not subscribe to any identifiable political ideology, did not blue‐print a grand master‐plan, the application of which eventuated in the complex arrangements of industrial control and the establishment of the national minimum wage. More in character would be the proposition that labour deployed its scarce resources at the points most likely to yield the greatest short‐term rewards. It was logica…
Industrial Labour and Politics
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Industrial Labour and Politics
Labor and the Living Wage 1890–1910
It is clear that the Australian labour movement did not subscribe to any identifiable political ideology, did not blue‐print a grand master‐plan, the application of which eventuated in the complex arrangements of industrial control and the establishment of the national minimum wage. More in character would be the proposition that labour deployed its scarce resources at the points most likely to yield the greatest short‐term rewards. It was logica…
Justice Higgins and the Harvester Judgement
Wages in Australia, 1891 to 1914
The Living Wage in Australia
In contemporary societies the obligation to exercise some control of national economic and social affairs is judged to be the natural order of things. In the more advanced countries, the government inter venes to control the many divergent forces in the process of industriali sation, whilst in those at earlier stages of modernisation, the State's role is to somehow gear society up to a higher standard of living?and fast. In the nineteenth century…
Victorian Trade Union Statistics, 1889-1914
Thanks to the diligence of colonial/State and Commonwealth statisticians, quantitative measurement of many socio-economic phenomena is largely a question of turning up the appropriate sections of the Year Books or Statistical Registers, transcribing data therefrom, and then setting about the task of solving the many difficult problems of continuity and comparability. Trade union statistics were not neglected; at least, not by the Commonwealth and…
Wages for Unskilled Work, and Margins for Skill, Australia, 1901–21
Australian History and Society (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Citation (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Education Systems and Policy (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)