French and German Socialism in Modern Times

by Richard T. Ely

[161] Cf. Wagner, in Tübinger Zeitschrift (1878), SS. 211, 212.

[162] “Zur Beleuchtung,” etc., SS. 23, 24.

[163] That is, the labor of man in economic society.

[164] “Zur Beleuchtung,” S. 24.

[165] The Fourteenth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor for 1883 goes to substantiate this theory. In 1875 the “percentage of wages paid of value of product” in over two thousand establishments was 24.68; in 1880 only 20.33. Vide p. 371; cf. also other statistics on the same page and on p. 370.

[166] “Normal Arbeitstag;” Tübinger Zeitschrift, S. 361.

[167] “Offener Brief,” etc., in Lassalle’s “Reden,” Bd. i. S. 270.

[168] Cf. Lassalle’s “Reden,” Bd. i. SS. 40-42, where this thought is brought out clearly and forcibly.

[169] I do not mean by this to state that I consider the explanation correct.

[170] “Hülfstafeln zu Preisberechnungen für Zimmerarbeiten, auf Grundlage der durchschnittlichen Leistung der Arbeiter,” von H. Peters. Schwerin i. M., and “Hülfsbuch zur Aufstellung von Lohnregulativen und Preisberechnungen für Bautischlerarbeiten, mit Angabe des Materialbedarfs und des durchschnittlichen Arbeitswerths nach Stunden und Minuten,” von H. Peters (Berlin, 1877).