Labor As Affected By The War Series

Author : United States. Bureau Statistics
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230164106
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Labor As Affected by the War Series written by United States. Bureau Statistics and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...courteously. One of the great difficulties is to get personalities definitely removed from the transaction. A discussion that starts about the price of a job often finishes by two men staking their reputation as craftsmen and their experience as workmen that they are absolutely right. The rate fixer must be made to feel that it is not a disgraceful thing to alter his price. The friendly spirit is extremely important, and unduly conceited rate fixers with the manner of a general manager have not proved invariably successful. The surprising part of the scheme over the period in which it has now been operating is the very small number of committees which are held. It would appear that a very stupid workman who goes to the time study office to argue with the rate fixer, or a very thick-headed rate fixer, are either of them rather afraid of what a committee would decide about their particular case, and so whichever party feels himself to be technically weakest in the argument appears to give way. At any rate, the number of committees is incredibly small. It may be argued that this is because the prices are fixed on so generous a basis. The average in the whole of the shops concerned ranges from 27.5 per cent in the worst case to 52.25 per cent in the highest average case. The provision by which an employer is allowed to reduce a price (provided that he adds the time so reduced onto some job which is a lean one) has the advantage that after a time you get a certain number of hours on the men's side of the ledger, and this is a sort of) accumulation of time in the bank. By this means cases of special hardship can be dealt with by adding some of the time on to the lean jobs. The composition of the committee from the employers' point of view...