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Wages Boards in Australia: I. Victoria

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Introduction: methods of wage regulation, 98. — 1. The anti-sweating movement in Victoria, 101. — 2. Origin and introduction of wages boards, 107. — Parliamentary history of the minimum wage bill, 110. — Main features of the act of 1896, 120. — 3. Extension of the system and its struggle for existence, 122. — Work of the first boards, 123. — Act of 1900, 126. — Crisis of 1902, 131. — Report of the Royal Commission in 1903, 139. — The system made permanent, 143. — 4. Growing popularity of the boards, 144.

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  • M. B. Hammond, 1914. "Wages Boards in Australia: I. Victoria," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 29(1), pages 98-148.
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    1. Peter Lloyd, 2017. "The Evolution of Tariff Protection and Wage Protection in the Late Colonies and Early Federation," Economic Papers, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 36(4), pages 459-476, December.

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