Labour difficulties and suggested solutions; a manual for technical students, cashiers, foremen, departmental or works managers and employers

W. J. (William Joseph) Deeley

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• Langue: English
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THELIBRARY
OF
THEUNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
RIVERSIDE
GIFT OF
Dr. Gordon WatkinsLABOUR DIFFICULTIES AND
SUGGESTED SOLUTIONSLabour Difficulties
and
SolutionsSuggested
A MANUAL FOR
TECHNICAL STUDENTS,
CASHIERS, FOREMEN,
DEPARTMENTAL OR
WORKS MANAGERS,
AND EMPLOYERS
BY
W. B.A.DEELEY,J.
FORMERLYOFLABOURDEPARTMENT,
THE CALICO PRINTERS' ASSOCIATION
LIMITED EMPLOYMENT
; MANAGER,
HANS RENOLD LIMITED ; HEAD
FIELDEN DEMONSTRATIONMASTER,
SCHOOL; HONORARY DEMONSTRATOR
IN TEACHING AT THE MANCHESTER
UNIVERSITY
SECOND (ENLARGED) EDITION
LOP4DON: BENN BROTHERS LIMITED
BOUVERIE8, STREET, E.G. 4
1919RIGHTS RESERVEDPREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
THE Manual is to introduce technicalpresent designed
students our recruits in to becomeonly training
of to one of the most difficultcaptains industry
will have to face in their chosen career.problems they
little research has hitherto been done to solveVery
variouswhose human elements are much moreproblems
than those of chemistry.
us with suffi-History fortunately provides problems
to the main direction of our searchciently parallel give
for a solution. This is a series ofManual, then, mainly
semi-detached cases treated so as to a fewexpose general
or rules in order to stake out a claim for manprinciples
to be the status and attention due tomanagement given
few thus discussed in aa scientific A casesstudy.*
student's course will awaken interest in and furnishthem,
him with centres of and for rightgrowth comparison
treatment his works so that afterwards hecareer,during
will understand andreadily contemporary progress,
its results asassimilate occur.they
this method is also best for forementoo,Fortunately,
and others now in manfully management.occupied
Labour difficulties increase and must be solved atdaily,
once. Reconstruction and a better understanding
and rather than betweenbetween man management,
labour and cannot wait for a race ofcapital, supermen.
The salvation of British and theindustry building up
of another on those inmerrie England depend engaged
it to-day.
It is with some of their solemn trustappreciation
whether assumed or all that thisimposed unwittingly
* in in otTead "InstinctsOrdway Industry" says: "Complexity
motivation and endowments invites case analysis."vi. PREFACE
is addressed and dedicated to allshort Manual present
andworkers, foremen, cashiers, managers, employers.
material was in answer to anThe present prepared
invitation to a course of six lectures togive third-year
in the Manchester School ofundergraduates Technology.
The limitations of time and of works on theexperience
hearers will to someof the intended explain, extent,part
the limitations of itstreatment, form,thought provoking
of someand the definiteness apparently premature
on matters which will remain in ajudgments always
state of solution.partial
When the course was thrown to others the wide-open
interest and sacrifice of leisure thosespread scanty by
withfully occupied responsible management problems
was but it disturbed ourday by day very gratifying,
As it did not invalidateabove, however,plans. explained
them on the it immediate
; contrary, suggested publica-
a circle andtion to reach wider of students responsible
no in thisinterested, doubt,managers equally subject.
Whatever be the success of the Lectures or Manualmay
in to terms our stubborn labour difficulties,bringing
the thanks of the author and his readers are due to the
initiative and of Garnett.organization Principal
"
is also due to the Editor of TheAcknowledgment
"
forAutomobile toEngineer permission republish
and will remind the readerIII,Chapter every chapter
debt to twoof the author's Manchester firmslarge
Messrs. Hans Renold Ltd. and The Calico Printers'
Association.
W. D.J.
Manchester, March, 1918.