Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

152 EFFICIENCY METHODS our workpeople in good health on to the shoulders of the already somewhat overburdened em- ployers ! ”1 With regard to the attitude of scientific manage- ment in this matter, there should be no doubt in the mind of anyone who has studied it thus far that the best possible general conditions in the establishment must be part of the programme. It would appear to be one of the guarantees which is given to the worker, in promising him all possible improvement of equipment to facilitate work. Nevertheless, the code setting forth the claims of scientific management to benefit labour as Mr. Hoxie obtained them from Dr. Taylor2 speaks only very generally on the question of material conditions. We have— A. 6 h. By instituting and enforcing rational rest periods and modes of recreation during the working hours. 6 i. By surrounding the workers with the safest and most sanitary shop environ- ments. B. 4 f. By careful study of fatigue. . . . But, for the most part, benefits by means of change in the mutual relations of employer, foreman and workman are dwelt upon, whereas in most welfare or betterment work material improvements in conditions certainly come first. It seems possible 1 See Trans, of Amer. Soc. of Mechanical Engineers, vol. xxv. * Hoxie, Appendix II,