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NOT REALLY SO HIGH:
Thole, Taylor Analyze Wages in Detroit
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Are wages higher in Detroit than
in other metropolitan manufactur-
ing areas in the country?
An encouraging (for Detroit) an-
swer was essayed in a recent study
of the problem by Henry C. Thole
and Harold C. Taylor of the Up-
john Institute.
The keynote finding was that
the automobile industry does not
set the pattern for every other
business endeavor in Detroit. "The
notion that the rate structure of
Detroit's dominant high-wage in-
dustr'y has spread to other sectors
of the Detroit economy has re-
markably little solid support," the
report stated.
Qualifier
However, there is a big differ-
ence in manufacturing and non-
manufacturing sectors. In the first
category, Detroit-in comparison
with wage scales in Cleveland,
Chicago, Los Angeles and New
York-ranked high in about 80
per cent of all comparisons.
But in the nonmanufacturing
industries, Detroit was lower than
Cleveland in three comparisons
and higher in 14; with Chicago,
lower in 13 comparisons, higher in
six and equal in one; with Los
Angeles, lower in 17 categories and
higher in only three; with New
York, lower in 12 and higher in
eight.
Overall, only Cleveland has low-
er nonmanufacturing rates than
Detroit in the five cities surveyed.
Explanation
The authors listed four main
reasons why auto wages are high.
First, "the factor of accessibil-
ity is important to large propor-
tions of urban workers. For many
capable Detroiters, jobs in down-
town Detroit or in their own gen-
eral neighborhood are far more
accessible than jobs in an auto-
mobile factory or office, and these
people will take the more seces-
sible jobs, even at lower rates of
pay."
Scared Off
Second, the skilled. nature of
many automotive jobs makes job
applicants shy away. "Large num-
bers of applicants do not have the
aptitude or the ability to obtain
such work."
Third, the "demanding" and
"unpleasant" working conditionsi
do not entice workers. Noise, dirtf
and dust, as well add to the prob-i
lem of the "heavy work."t
"Finally, it must be recalledE
that, during at least the past fivet
years or so, the Detroit labor{
market has been very loose. Op-1
portunities for employment in ther
high-wage establishments have
been greatly reduced, so that jobs
offering lower rates of pay haveI
become attractive to increasingf
numbers of applicants."
" In general, the degree to wnich <
the automotive complex permeates
the whole industrial structure of
Detroit is quite fantastic, and it
is much beyond what even close
students of Detroit's industrial
problems may have completely rec-
ognized," they wrote.-
In fact, industries which nor-1
mally have their own wage scales
are, in Detroit, "completely or al-
most completely identified with
the automotive industry." Ex-
amples cited were spark plug fac-
tories and the tool and die in-
dustry which exist mainly as '-ip-
pliers for the automotive "Big
Three."
Auto Influence
And with "wages in the motor
vehicles industry being consider-
ably higher" than other industries,
"it seems highly plausible that the
automotive wage contour, to-
gether with its permeation in De-
troit's industrial structure, "ac-
counts for the higher pay rates."
However, the authors down-
played the implication of this
finding, and pointed out other fac-
tors for firms locating in a par-
ticular city.
One is the decentralization of
the automobile industry. Given the
costs of shipping goods, conven-
ience "is bound to lead some New
York manufacturers to build
plants in Detroit and some De-
troit manufacturers to build plants
in New York."
Another factor is accessibility.
The "intimate and continuous"
relationship between the "Big
Three" and supplier firms gives
them no choice but to locate in
Detroit.
With these facts in mind, De-
troit may hope "to receive more
careful consideraiton from some
firms which, through misinfor-
mation or prejudice, have presum-
ed that the Detroit wage level
would rule that city out as a pos-
sible location for their new plants
or offices,'' the authors said.
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