Shop Management
Forfatter: Frederick Winslow Taylor
År: 1911
Forlag: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Sted: New York and London
Sider: 207
UDK: 658.01 Tay
With an introduction by Henry R. Towne
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SHOP MANAGEMENT
many manufacturers that labor unions are an almost
unmitigated detriment to those who join them, as
well as to employers and the general public.
“The labor unions — particularly the trades unions
of England — have rendered a great service, not
only to their members, but to the world, in shortening
the hours of labor and in modifying the hardships
and improving the conditions of wage workers.
“In the writer’s judgment the system of treating
with labor unions would seem to occupy a middle
position among the various methods of adjusting
the relations between employers and men.
“When employers herd their men together in
classes, pay all of each class the same wages, and
offer none of them any inducements to work harder
or do better than the average, the only remedy for
the men lies in combination; and frequently the only
possible answer to encroachments on the part of
their employers is a strike.
“This state of affairs is far from satisfactory to
either employers or men, and the writer believes the
system of regulating the wages and conditions of
employment of whole classes of men by conference
and agreement between the leaders of unions and
manufacturers to be vastly inferior, both in its moral
effect on the men and on the material interests of
both parties, to the plan of stimulating each work-
man’s ambition by paying him according to his
individual worth, and without limiting him to the
rate of work or pay of the average of his class.”
The amount of work which a man should do in
a day, what constitutes proper pay for this work,