Capital's Duty to the Wage-earner: A Manual of Principles and Practice on Handling the Human Factors in IndustryLongmans, Green and Company, 1923 - 328 páginas |
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adequate American amongst arbitration Assembly attain body capital and labor capital's capitalists census cent CHAPTER chiefly co-operation Committee common labor Company concern consideration craft unionism democracy desire Dillingham Law disputes duty earner earnings economic effect efficiency Employe Representative employer and employe employment executives existence fact factors foremen gainfully employed groups human immigration increase individual industrial relations industrial unions intelligence interest issues JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON justice labor leaders less Lord Leverhulme management representative matter means ment mind moral natural nomic operation organized labor orthodox unions ownership ownership-sharing percent Plan plant ployers ployes possible practice present problem production profit-sharing profits regard representation rule schemes secure social society surplus SWIFT & COMPANY SWIFT AND COMPANY things tion tive trade unions twelve-hour union Union Shop United Voting Division wage-earners wages wealth workers workmen
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Página 14 - An' set your beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie 's makin' ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion ! ROBERT BURNS.
Página 30 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Página 64 - History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on.
Página 180 - this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Página 84 - Capitalism can cure itself, for it is not the blind force that socialists supposed and not the helpless plaything of demand and supply, but it is Management. And the greatest self-cure that it needs to-day is security of the job. for it is the insecurity of jobs that is the breeder of socialism, of anarchism, of the restrictions of trade unionism, and a menace to capitalism, the nation, and even civilization.
Página 73 - We workmen do not ask that we should be admitted to any share in what is essentially the employer's own business — that is, in those matters which do not concern us directly in the industry or employment in which we may be engaged. We do not seek to sit on the Board of Directors, or to interfere with the buying of materials, or with the selling of the product. But in the daily management of the employment in which we spend our working lives, in the atmosphere and under the conditions in which we...
Página 73 - ... with whom we have to be in contact, in all these matters, we feel that we, as workmen, have a right to a voice — even to an equal voice — with the management itself. Believe me, we shall never get any lasting industrial peace except on the lines of industrial democracy.
Página 23 - In 1918, the year for which the best data are available, about 86 per cent of persons gainfully employed had incomes of less than $2,000 per annum, and about 14 per cent had incomes exceeding that sum.
Página 73 - Would it not be possible for the employers of this country, on the conclusion of peace, when we have rid ourselves of the restrictive legislation to which we have submitted for war purposes, to agree to put their businesses on a new footing, by admitting the workmen to some participation, not in profits but in control? We workmen do not ask that we should be admitted to any share in what is essentially the employer's own business — that is, in those matters which do not concern us directly, in...
Página 30 - Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.