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Page 63 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 70 - ... about one subject and are best fitted to deal with it. Democracy can be just as successful as any other form of government in employing experts. Nor does democratic control, in the present stage at any rate, involve a demand for control over what may be called the commercial side of management — the buying of the raw material, the selling of the finished article, and all the exercise of trained judgment and experience that are brought to bear by business men on these questions.
Page 69 - ... work is incapable of fully understanding this science, without the guidance and help of those who are working with him or over him, either through lack of education or through insufficient mental capacity. In order that the work may be done in accordance with scientific laws, it is necessary that there shall be a far more equal division of the responsibility between the management and the workmen than exists under any of the ordinary types of management.
Page 62 - ... workers regard as a good life ? These are not at all easy questions to answer. There are a good many people, however, who are prepared to answer them offhand; generally, I notice, people who do not belong to the working class themselves. I came across two perfectly definite answers lately which are worth quoting, as they are both by wellknown writers on industrial subjects. Mr. FW Taylor, the inventor of the system of scientific management, remarks in advocacy of his plan, that it " has for its...
Page 69 - It enables the employer constantly to lop off portions of the work from a certain class and then to create new classifications of workers, with new conditions of work and pay. Add to all of this the advantage gained by the employers in the progressive gathering up and systematization of craft knowledge for their own uses, and the destruction of apprenticeship which cuts the workers off from the perpetuation among them of craftsmanship, and the destructive tendencies of scientific management as far...
Page 62 - Rabbi Ben Ezra: Irks care the cropfull bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?
Page 70 - Industrial democracy . . . does not mean handing over the control of matters requiring expert knowledge to a mass of people who are not equipped with that knowledge. Under any system of management there must be division of labor; there must be those who know all about one subject and are best fitted to deal with it. Democracy can be just as successful as any other form of government in employing experts. Nor does democratic control, in the present stage at any rate, involve a demand for control over...
Page 70 - Our policy must be, not to make output mechanically perfect by turning the workman himself into a mere machine, but to make our organisation scientific in the widest sense by the voluntary and harmonious co-operation of all the human factors concerned. It is along this road, and no other, that we shall reach the industrial democracy of the future...
Page 70 - At present, at any rate, the workers' demand for democratic control is not a demand for a voice in the business, but for control over the conditions under which their own daily work is done. It is a demand for control over one side, but that the most important side, because it is the hiimuri side of the industrial process.