WHAT IS WORK WORTH?
What is work worth? This was a question addressed to .Judge. Heydon in the Industrial Arbitration Court at Sydney.last week. "Now you have set hi© a problem," his Honor replied, "whidi is -becoming more :ind more difficult, especially in regard to female labour. It is argued that work done by a woman is worth as much as if it were done by a man. Hut one does not hear the converse side of the caso argued. . Cle.irly the living wage of a. ivoman is not so high as that of a man. We build up from the basis of a living wage. The woman lias not a fiinily and a. home to keep, and yet the work .is the san.'." "What is the value of work?" repeated his Honor. "There is no measure of the value of work that 'I have ever been able to got hold of, except the old one of 'what you caJi get.' Work may be worth so much to one employer, and yet il may not he worth so much to every employer. I can't find any way in which you can arrive at the value, of work. Nowadays, you can't get at the value. In the old days it was the market price, but now the price is fixed by the Court. That is not the market price. Tt is the Court price."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 November 1912, Page 4
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233WHAT IS WORK WORTH? Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 November 1912, Page 4
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