Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

T5# efficiency methods not directly meet the needs and wishes of the people using them.1 The question of control by the workers, however, belongs properly to the next chapter. Educational schemes, which are often made a special feature of welfare work, have their separate place in schemes of scientific management (see chap. xvi.). A section of workers in the United Kingdom hold the view that the State will be able to enforce all necessary improvement in conditions by legislation and thorough inspection. Workmen in the United States have far less hope from legislation, and trust more to the power of their Unions. It may be pointed out to the English workers that the State can enforce only a minimum upon all employers, and that conditions far beyond the power of legisla- tion in the immediate future might be accepted from employers willing to create them, with suitable safeguards, and a real mutual understanding and co-operation. in Mta Jane “Ä should be read . Although written™ ,002 £ r J \ + 1 the subject of v.ellare °n‘"b“'K’n ‘°