This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...socialized ends. Profit-sharing refers ordinarily to an agreement, freely accepted, by which "the employee receives a share, fixed in advance, of the profits." It is a plan of paying to employees a share of profits in addition to wages. It is assumed that the profits which are shared will be created by the increased ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...socialized ends. Profit-sharing refers ordinarily to an agreement, freely accepted, by which "the employee receives a share, fixed in advance, of the profits." It is a plan of paying to employees a share of profits in addition to wages. It is assumed that the profits which are shared will be created by the increased diligence and care of the employees. Another procedure for improving the conditions of men in industry is "co-operation," which refers to the efforts on the part of the working class to abolish profits by distributing them, or surplus funds, among those whose labor or trade has created the surplus. Consumers' co-operation consists generally in a union of many consumers for the purpose of obtaining commodities at wholesale rates, of selling them at the ordinary retail rates to their own members, and then of dividing the profits from such sales among themselves upon some equitable basis. Producers' co-operation is a different system. While the aim of consumers' co-operation is to give the purchaser the advantage of lower costs, the purpose of producers' co-operation is commonly given as that of raising prices for the benefit of laborers. Hence there exists an essential antagonism between consumers' and producers' co-operative activities. Associations of workmen, employing managers and acting as their own employers, have been successful, but not with uneducated and untrained people. Some of the difficulties in connection with producers' co-operation are a lack of sufficient capital, endless trouble with incompetent and shiftless members, the problem of securing and keeping an efficient manager, the lack of grace with which losses are borne, and an insufficient degree of intelligent and socialized background on the part of the ra...
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