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1 online resource (429 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415313803
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9781134562190
Content:
Structured in three parts, Economics of Fatigue and Unrest is as relevant today for the study of industrial relations and human resource management as when it was first published
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- SELECT LIST OF SOURCES WITH REFERENCE NUMBERS USED IN THE TEXT -- PART I -- CHAPTER I THE GROWTH OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY -- The Industrial Revolution-The Measure of Efficiency-The Use of Scientific Invention-The Division of Labour-The Factory and the Factory Town-Big Business-The Capitalist System-The Scope of Industry. -- CHAPTER II THE LABOUR PROBLEM -- Labour as a Commodity-Labour Demand and Supply-The Earnings of Labour-Life at the Poverty Line-Conditions of Employment-Type of Work and Type of Worker-Hours and Intensity of Work-Physical Environment and Incentives. -- CHAPTER III SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM -- The Rise and Fall of Laissez-faire-The Labour Movement-State Control in Industry-The Plan of Scientific Management-Scientific Management and Labour. -- CHAPTER IV THE THEORY OF FATIGUE AND UNREST -- The "Human Factor," "Fatigue" and "Unrest"-Theory and Investigation-The Cost and Control of Human Inefficiency-The Adjustment of Industrial Conditions-The Scheme of Investigation in Practice-The Need for Joint Control-The Plan of Informed Joint Control. -- PART II -- CHAPTER V THE BUSINESS COSTS OF INDUSTRIAL INEFFICIENCY -- Business Costs and Real Costs-Overhead Costs Analysed-The Importance of Overhead Costs-The Industrial Balance Sheet. -- CHAPTER VI THE LOSS BY LABOUR TURNOVER -- A. The Cost of Turnover -- A General Analysis-The Factor of Reduced Production-A Summary of Costs. -- B. The Average Loss by Turnover -- American Experience-English Experience-Experiences Compared-The Aggregate Cost of Average Experience. -- C. The Minimum Loss by Turnover -- D. Conditions of Excessive Loss -- 1. Effect of Different Physical Working Conditions and Types of Work -- 2. Effect of Organized Employment Policy -- 3. Effect of Employees' Length of Service
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4. Effect of Type, Experience and Wages of Workers Employed -- CHAPTER VII THE LOSS BY ABSENCE -- A. The Cost of Absence -- B. The Average Loss by Absence -- 1. Full Absence -- 2. Lateness -- 3. Time Lost by Strike and Lockout -- C. Minimum Loss by Unavoidable Absence -- 1. Insufficient Evidence of Factory Records -- 2. Sources and Limits of Unavoidable Absence -- 3. Absence from Industrial Accidents -- 4. Absence from Sickness -- 5. Supplement and Summary -- D. Conditions of Excessive Loss -- 1. Effect of Hours and Other Working Conditions -- 2. Effect of Sex -- Living Conditions and Affiliations of Workers Employed -- CHAPTER VIII THE LOSS BY DEFICIENCY OF OUTPUT -- A. Cost of Deficient Output -- BC. Average and Minimum Loss by Deficient Output -- The Existence of Variation-Individual Variations-Daily and Hourly Variations. -- D. Conditions of Excessive Loss -- 1. The General Effect of Changed Hours of Work -- 2. The Cyclical Effect of Continuous Hours and Days of Work -- 3. Effect of Different Methods of Work and of Rhythm -- 4. Effect of Physical Environment and Night Work -- 5. Effect of Methods of Wage Payment and Other Incentives -- 6. Effect of Type and Living Conditions of Worker Employed -- CHAPTER IX THE LOSS BY DEFECTIVE OUTPUT -- The Cost of Defective Output-Effect of Hours of Work-Effect of Type of Work, Incentives and Other Conditions. -- CHAPTER X THE LOSS BY INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS -- A. The Cost of an Industrial Accident -- B. The Average Loss by Industrial Accidents -- American Experience-English Experience. -- C. Minimum Loss by Industrial Accidents -- The Theoretical Minimum-The Practical Minimum. -- D. Conditions of Excessive Loss -- 1. Effect of Hours of Work -- 2. Effect of Social and Physical Working Conditions -- 3. Effect of the Experience, Literacy and Type of Worker Employed
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CHAPTER XI THE LOSS BY INDUSTRIAL ILL-HEALTH -- A. Cost of Industrial Ill-health -- BC. Average and Minimum Industrial Ill-health -- 1. Physical Deterioration -- 2. The Industrial Death Rate -- 3. Superannuation and Invalidity -- 4. Comparative Rates of Sickness -- 5. Rates of Insured Sickness -- 6. The Occupational Diseases -- D. Conditions of Excessive Loss by Industrial Ill-health -- 1. The Effect of Adjusting Hours of Work -- 2. Effect of Different Types of Work and Physical Working Conditions -- 3. Effect of Medical Supervision in the Factory -- 4. Effect of Employment of Various Types of Worker -- 5. Effect of Poor Wages and Living Conditions -- CHAPTER XII THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FATIGUE AND UNREST -- The Findings of Statistical Investigation summed up -- The Intermediacy of Human Fatigue and Unrest -- The Findings of Test and Questionnaire -- The Scope of Fatigue and Unrest -- A Policy of Record-Keeping -- PART III -- CHAPTER XIII THE RECORD OF LABOUR LOSSES -- Measurement of Labour Turnover-Measurement of Absence-Measurement of Output-Measurement of Accidents-Measurement of Sickness. -- CHAPTER XIV THE RECORD OF INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS -- The Employee File-The Survey of Working Conditions. -- SUBJECT INDEX
Additional Edition:
Print version Florence, P. Sargant Economics of Fatigue and Unrest and the Efficiency of Labour in English and American Industry Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415313803
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English
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