Shop Management

10 FOREWORD having the right physical equipment for their respect- ive tasks and being receptive of expert guidance in their performance. Under Dr. Taylor’s leadership the combination of these elements has produced, in numberless cases, astonishing increments of output and of earnings per employé. We are proud of the fact that the United States has led all other nations in the development of labor- saving machinery in almost every field of industry. Dr. Taylor has shown us methods whereby we can duplicate this achievement by vastly increasing the efficiency of human labor, and of accomplishing thereby a large increase in the wage-earning capacity of the workman, and a still larger decrease in the labor cost of his product. The records of experience, and the principles deduced therefrom, set forth by Dr. Taylor in this book, should interest and appeal to all workers in the industrial field, employer and employé alike, for they point the way to increased efficiency and earn- ing power for both. We are justly proud of the high wage rates which prevail throughout our country, and jealous of any interference with them by the products of the cheaper labor of other countries. To maintain this condition, to strengthen our con- trol of home markets, and, above all, to broaden our opportunities in foreign markets where we must compete with the products of other industrial nations, we should welcome and encourage every influence tending to increase the efficiency of our productive processes. Dr. Taylor’s contributions to this end are fundamental in character and immeasurable in