Excerpt from Workingmen's Standard of Living in Philadelphia, 1919: A Report by the Bureau of Municipal Research of Philadelphia It has nothing to fear from the hazards of competition which the private employer cannot leave wholly out of account. Neither can there be any question as to the methods of enforcing a living wage in the public service, for this is a field that is not involved in the controversy between laissez-faire and social control. Public salaries and wages always have been fixed by public authority, and, of course, a living wage for public employes would be enforced in the same manner. 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.