Excerpt from The Establishment of Minimum Rates in the Tailoring Industry: Under the Trade Boards Act of 1909 In trying to discover the effect of the establishment of a minimum wage the inquirer meets in almost every industry with different reactions and different difii culties in presenting them. In the chain-making industry it was comparatively easy to state with some precision the effect of the Trade Board on piece rates and earnings. In the tailoring industry, in which there are no recognised piece-lists, and for which no minimum piece-prices were fixed by the Trade Board, it is almost impossible to do 50. Chapter III. Of this work, which deals with the advance in wages caused by the Trade Board, is, therefore, weak and inadequate, and I must apologise in advance for its deficiencies. That a large increase has taken place among the more poorly paid workers is fairly clear; but its extent cannot be ascertained by any inquirer who cannot insist. Like a Government Department, on a compulsory return of earnings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.