Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

178 EFFICIENCY METHODS government as strongly as they do, may yet be inspired by the idea of brotherhood. Miss Jane Addams1 has expressed the growth of the new moral impulse admirably : “ Outside the pen of philanthropists, the proletariat had learned to say in many languages that ‘ the injury of one is the concern of all.’ ” . . . “ Their watchwords were brotherhood, sacrifice, the subordination of in- dividual and trade interests to the good of the working-classes.” . . . “The workers have developed social virtues beyond the conception of an employer who appreciates only individualist virtues/’ We have already indicated that this aspect of the situation as between employer and employed is vital in the consideration of welfare work. But we must now turn to study the action of the same new moral impulse in the economic situation that is created by the new methods. A standard task or schedule time is evolved for one particular operation, and a few workmen only are put on this work. Their wages are very greatly increased, and thus they stand out from their fellows. One of the complaints made at the Government Arsenal at Watertown when these standard tasks were intro- duced was that not enough men were given bonus work. This might at first seem inconsistent with objecting to bonus work in general, but it is essen- tially sound. If the new arrangement is an im- provement, all should have their chance with it; if 1<s" Democracy and Social Ethics,” chapter on Industrial Amelioration,