Chapter 23. The Law of Wages
1. What is the effect of free common schools on the comparative wages of skilled and of unskilled laborers?
2. What would be the effect of technical and industrial schools on the wages of artisans?
3. If a man is not content with $2 a day, why does he not do work that is paid $5 a day?
4. What is the effect on wages of differences in the danger, pleasurableness, social distinction, expense of preparation, of occupation?
5. If women are paid less than men for the same work, why are men employed at all?
6. What is the difference between these definitions: wages is the share of labor; wages is the payment by one man to another for his services?
7. If the supply of labor of any class were to be decreased 10% would wages rise in like proportion?
8. 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?