Competition between prospective employers will then actually force the payment of higher wages.
Any measure which will increase the demand for labor, relatively to the demand for the other factors of production, will increase the productivity of labor, and will justify the payment of higher wages.
As a general proposition, this strengthened position would tend automatically to result in higher wages.
Vast numbers pass from Scandinavia and other countries of Europe to the United States, or from England to Australia, urged by the desire to go from a community of low to one of higher wages.
The fact (sufficiently established by Mr. Brassey) is not considered also that England gives higher wages to operatives than the Continent, and yet England is able to undersell France and Germany in neutral markets.
If productiveness can be increased, higher wages as well as higher profits are possible.
Lastly, the personal disagreeableness of the work, which must be compensated for by higher wages.
This is true especially of that peculiar kind of higher wages which we shall (Sec.
Footnote 165-2: Higher wages promised, for instance, as a reward for saving a human life or some other very precious thing in great danger of being destroyed.
When the argument concerns itself merely with alleging the influence of higher wages, without shorter hours, upon the efficiency of labour, this neglect of the consideration of intense labour has a more urgent importance.
This, taken along with the influence of the competition of home-workers in the bookfolding and booksewing trades, explains the fact that the harder and higher-skilled work gets no higher wages.
He says very truly, "The first great want of the workmen is better morality and more thriftiness, not better masters or higher wages.
Putting quite aside the question of whether "higher wages" are not needed by the workman, nothing can be truer at the present time than this fact, brought thus before us by Newman.
They had refrained from declaring themselves until they had a large and influential membership, and then came out with a formal demand for shorter hours, higher wages, and a change of system.
Higher wages, with the competition of foreign labour, spelt only one word to English manufacturers, and that was ruin.
He saw that the tax on food-stuffs was being commended to the working-man with the argument of higher wages.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "higher wages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
