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Updated: May 26, 2025
In an unstandardized trade there can be no certainty as to wages and hours, while there is a constant tendency to level down under the pressure of unchecked competition from both above and below.
It may be concluded that some redistribution of available employment will sometimes follow upon the introduction of the standard wage into industries in which wages were hitherto unstandardized, resulting in the partial or complete unemployment of the least efficient members of the group.
That doctrine, crudely stated, is that the standard wage for the work in question should be the highest of the unstandardized wages. That doctrine is called "standardization upward." If the suggested test is sound, it cannot be admitted that the doctrine of standardization upward is always valid.
Practically without exception these ladies put vine leaves in their hair geranium leaves, anyway and galloped to Miss Mitchin's, to drink tea and discuss Freud and dance the fox-trot in a wild, free, artistic, somewhat unstandardized manner.
But as compared with cutters, basters, and operators the finishers both before and since the strike had always been paid relatively below their deserts. Wages were lowered, not only by the unstandardized rates prevalent through the sub-subcontracting system, but also by the practice of sending hand-finishing out of the factories and shops to be done at home.
If she were an ordinary wage-worker, we should say of her that her occupation was an unstandardized one, and that individually she was too dependent upon the personal goodwill of another. Therefore, like all other unstandardized callings, marriage, considered as an occupation, tends to lower the general market value of woman's work.
The saleswomen themselves are the worst victims of their unstandardized employment; and the fact that they spend long years of youth in work involving a serious outlay of their strength, without training them in concentration or individual responsibility or resourcefulness, but apparently dissipating these powers, seems one of the gravest aspects of their occupation.
Or in other words, the level of standardization should be determined by a balance of the interests involved that point being chosen at which, it is judged, the most favorable balance is established. There is current, indeed, one doctrine of standardization which holds that there is but one satisfactory level of standardization for an occupation in which wages have been hitherto unstandardized.
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