Quote: improvements to bricklaying require management assistance; bricklayers must work at about the same rate

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It is highly likely that ... individual bricklayers have recognized the possibility of eliminating each of these unnecessary motions. ... [all of] the walls around a building must grow at the same rate of speed. No one bricklayer, then, can work much faster than the one next to him. [p. 83] ... [p. 84] Thus it will be seen that it is the assumption by the management of new duties and new kinds of work never done by employers in the past that makes this great improvement possible   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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