Social Engineering A Record Of Things Done By American Industrialists Employing Upwards Of One And One Half Million Of People

Author : William H. Tolman
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ISBN 13 : 9781331921233
Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book Social Engineering written by William H. Tolman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Engineering: A Record of Things Done by American Industrialists Employing Upwards of One and One-Half Million of People In my studies of social and industrial problems during the last fifteen years, I was impressed with the extent and the variety of efforts that were being made to promote better relations between capital and labor. At first there was no name for this kind of work. In 1898, for lack of a better term, I called it industrial betterment, a phrase which passed quickly into current use and literature. At that time industrial betterment was scarcely comprehended, but to-day the changes are being rung on betterment - industrial, social, civic and religious. Several years later, the National Civic Federation organized a department of betterment, and called it "welfare work." Industrial betterment is more comprehensive, inasmuch as it concerns the efficiency promotion of the worker as well as the plant, in other words, this betterment of the labor element is a cold business proposition and is undertaken commonly to get the best results out of labor. Welfare work concerns the improvement of the personal conditions of the laborer; this is often offensive to him and is resented by him, savoring as it does of paternalism and charity. Recognizing the inadequacy of both terms, industrial betterment and welfare work, to express the relations of interdependence between capital and labor and the sympathy which should exist between these two elements in the successful promotion of a business, I am convinced that the ideal relationship is best expressed by the term mutuality. During the last decade mutuality has made steady progress and is manifesting itself in a great variety of efforts; because of this the relations between capital and labor have become more sympathetic. 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.