Occupational wage differentials in the basic steel industry.
Since 1947 a joint union-management job-evaluation program has governed occupational wage relationships in nearly all of the basic steel industry. It is widely believed that this program only formalized and refined underlying tendencies toward stability in skill differentials in this industry. This article presents contrary evidence to show that, prior to the introduction of the program, occupational earnings differentials in steel followed the general trend toward narrowing of the skilled-unskilled spread, and that relative stability in base-rate differentials has existed only since 1947. The relationship of the job-evaluation program to other factors contributing to this change in the direction of steel wage movements is also discussed. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)
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1959
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Authors: | Stieber, Jack |
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Industrial and Labor Relations Review. - School of Industrial & Labor Relations, ISSN 0019-7939. - Vol. 12.1959, 2, p. 167-181
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations |
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