ABSTRACT

This chapter retraces ground covered by Sir Dennis Robertson's 1931 essay on "Wage-Grumbles."1 There Robertson was considering not the dissatisfaction of workers with their low incomes, but the dissatisfaction of their ideological spokesmen, to which we should join the bulk of the industrial-relations profession, with the marginalist or neoclassical tradition as applied to wage determination, a tradition that Chapter 6 has obviously followed.