Harry Tipper
Published: 2015-06-29
Total Pages: 292
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Excerpt from Human Factors in Industry: A Study of Group Organization To consider all the elements which are involved in a complete study of the labor problem would be impossible in any single volume. Study of the subconscious necessities of human development - which operate in connection with industry as they do in connection with all other social progress - would lead into the realm of philosophy if it were to be pursued to fundamentals. Merely to obtain an immediate and practical understanding of the conditions would require an examination of social and political progress in the various industrial countries, in order to explain the relation between labor troubles and political outlook; while educational methods and conditions have so important a bearing upon the development in industrial relations that a proper consideration of the question would require a very careful analysis of these conditions. The extent and value of present medical knowledge, the effect of universal suffrage, and the effect of racial and traditional religions would form a part of any complete analysis of the matter. This volume intends to deal only with the relation of the question to the practical development of industry in the more or less immediate future. For that reason it will be confined to those industrial methods, in the present and the comparatively recent past, which are necessary to the analysis of this part of the subject. Wherever it is important to deal with the social, educational, or other general aspects of the matter, in order to show the way in which they have affected industry, these matters will be stated as concisely and clearly as possible. 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.