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A Rational Wages System

by Henry Atkinson

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Written when the war had made industrial efficiency urgent, this compares the methods of payment then in use — day rate, piece rate, the premium and bonus schemes of Halsey and Rowan — and argues for a reward for efficiency added to a secure basic wage rather than substituted for it.

The incentive-pay argument, worked out in 1917. Download the free EPUB.

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