Quote: a third the employees, higher wages, reduced hours, and good relations; scientific management and selecting girls with quick perception

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To come back to the girls inspecting bicycle balls [for ball-bearings], ... thirty-five girls did the work formerly done by one hundred and twenty. And that the accuracy of the work at the higher speed was two-thirds greater than at the former slow speed. The good that came to the girls was ... 80 to 100 per cent. higher wages ... hours of labor were shortened from 10 1/2 to 8 1/2 per day, with a Saturday half holiday ... [p. 96] four recreation periods [per day] ... The benefits which came to the company ... Third. That the most friendly relations existed between the management and the employees, which rendered labor troubles of any kind or a strike impossible. ... It should be appreciated, however, that the one element which did more than all of the others was, the careful selection of girls with quick perception   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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