This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...trades continually turn their workers adrift. The pressure of speed in modern efficiency schemes pushes the dead-line back nearer to the beginning of the workers' career. "No man over thirtyfive need apply" is a constantly increasing order, and the further down in the scale of work we go, the less secure is a man's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...trades continually turn their workers adrift. The pressure of speed in modern efficiency schemes pushes the dead-line back nearer to the beginning of the workers' career. "No man over thirtyfive need apply" is a constantly increasing order, and the further down in the scale of work we go, the less secure is a man's grip upon his employment. The lower the wage, the less able he is to provide against unemployment, the more likely he is to have to endure it. Morality sags under unemployment. The saloon becomes more attractive than the dirty and complaining home. What is at first "the bitter bread of charity" comes to be eaten with contentment. No man looks the world in the face with independence when he knows not where his next meal is coming from. The first move of the Christian conscience is to supply relief. But to give men charity when they want work soon brings demoralization. It makes human derelicts. Valuable programs of public work for the unemployed have been worked out in Europe. But the real solution of the problem lies in the reorganization of industry for the production of men and not simply the making of goods. When industry is humanized, it will be seen to be the maintenance of the whole population steadily at work for the benefit of the whole community. IV r Modern science has discovered that over-work is just as dangerous as under-work. There is no more brilliant chapter in recent medical and industrial research than that which deals with the results of fatigue. Because it makes for disease and death by lowering vitality and lessening resistance power, the physicians are fighting it. Because of its economic loss, the managers of industry are overcoming it. Because the community has traced its results in depleted motherhood, ...
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