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The Challenge to Labor Standards
Rukeyser, Merryle Stanley | August 14, 1929 issue

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This article reports on uneven labor standards in the U.S. One of the principal social issues in the U.S. is the problem of converting Southern manufacturers and law makers to progressive labor standards which prevail in the North. From a strictly economic standpoint without reference to human considerations, profit and loss statements have demonstrated in the U.S. since the World War I that industries, like coal and textiles, which depend for their success in a measure on sweating labor, have fared relatively poorly. Capital has been lured to the South by the repetition of ancient economic fallacies. In underbidding the Northern labor market, the South is sacrificing its longer-term advantages for temporary benefits.

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LABOR laws & legislation; LABOR policy; TARIFF -- United States; WORLD War, 1914-1918; LABOR market; UNITED States
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