Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hours of Work as Related to Output and Health of Workers: Metal Manufacturing Industries; Research Report Number 18; July, 1919
The present report includes the metal trades proper, foundries, automobile, hardware, electrical equipment, and some miscellaneous establishments. Because of the large number of metal trades establish ments which have in recent years made substantial reductions in work schedules, interest now centers in experience with a 50-hour and a 48-hour week. Analysis of the evidence submitted by establishments working on these schedules indicates that a universal reduction to a 50-hour week in the metal manufacturing industries would involve a loss in output; nevertheless, the number Of establishments maintaining production with such a schedule is sufficiently large to indicate that a 50 - hour week could be rather generally introduced Without seriously curtailing production. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
