Economics of Fatigue and Unrest and the Efficiency of Labour in English and American IndustryStructured in three parts, Economics of Fatigue and Unrest is as relevant today for the study of industrial relations and human resource management as when it was first published. It contains chapters on the following: |
Contents
INTRODUCTION II | 11 |
CHAPTER I | 19 |
CHAPTER II | 48 |
CHAPTER III | 76 |
CHAPTER IV | 96 |
THE BUSINESS COSTS OF INDUSTRIAL INEFFICIENCY | 127 |
THE LOSS BY LABOUR TURNOVER | 137 |
A General AnalysisThe Factor of Reduced Production | 145 |
THE LOSS BY DEFICIENCY OF OUTPUT | 212 |
BC Average and Minimum Loss by Deficient Output | 218 |
Conditions of Excessive Loss | 225 |
CHAPTER IX | 264 |
CHAPTER X | 274 |
CHAPTER XI | 302 |
CHAPTER XII | 347 |
CHAPTER XIII | 397 |
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10-hour plant actual American amount average census cent Chapter compared compensation cost curve days lost dayshift death rate defective output deficient departments disability division of labour earnings economic effect efficiency employed employees employment England English evidence expense experience fact factory fall fatigue and unrest given hired hourly output human factor ill-health increase industrial accidents industrial conditions Industrial Fatigue Industrial Revolution investigation involved labour losses laissez-faire lathe less Lord Leverhulme machine machinery manufacturing materials measured ment metal method minimum months munition nightshift normal obtained occupations operation organization overhead paid percentage period persons physical physiological piece rates population probably production proportion rate of absence records reduced scientific management sickness speed spell standard statistics steel strike Table temperature tion trade unions tuberculosis turnover rate unavoidable usually variations Vernon wages week wet-bulb temperature women workers