The ‘Harvester Judgement’ was a benchmark legal case for ensuring workers in which country were paid a fair basic wage?
Living wage to live in "frugal comfort estimated by current... standards," regardless of the employer's capacity to pay. Justice Higgins established a wage of 7/- (7 shillings) per day or 42/- per week as a 'fair and reasonable' minimum wage for unskilled workers. The judgement was later overturned but remains influential. From the Harvester Judgement arose the Australian industrial concept of the "basic wage". For most skilled workers, in addition to the basic wage they received a margin on top of the basic wage, in proportion to a court or commission's judgement of a group of worker's skill levels. In 1913, to
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work By the Working People Themselves." This critique was taken up by the Industrial Workers of the World, who embodied it in their preamble: <nowiki>*</nowiki> "A Fair Day's Wages for a Fair Day's Work" by Friedrich Engels, published 1881 in The Labour Standard A fair day's wage for a fair day's work A fair day's wage for a fair day's work is an objective of the labor movement, trade unions and other workers' groups, to increase pay, and adopt reasonable hours of work. It is a motto of the American Federation of Labor. In 1881 Frederick Engels criticised the slogan in