Labour / P. Sargant Florence.

Labour focuses on the issues and problems concerning the efficient full employment of labour in a free market economy. The discussion is largely about the conditions (including comparative wages) underlying industrial efficiency and maximum production from various labour resources at least cost. By...

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Main Author: Florence, P. Sargant (Philip Sargant), 1890-1982
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2003.
Series:Routledge library editions. Economics series.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Introduction; Part One: Labour Resources and Utilization; Chapter I.-Man-power; 1 Man-power and its Composition; 2 Recent Changes in Man-power and its Allocation; 3 Qualitative Differences; Chapter II.-The Human Factor and the Economic System; 1 The Human Factor; 2 Human Nature and Economic Forces; 3 The Human Factor in Employment; 4 Conditions of Human Efficiency and Mobility; 5 Summary and Argument; Chapter III.-Measures of Labour Efficiency. 
505 8 |a 1 Inefficiency and its Costs2 Quantity, Quality and Economy of Output; 3 Industrial Accidents; 4 Absence; 5 Strikes; 6 Labour Turnover; 7 Unemployment; Part Two: Labour in Employment; Chapter IV.-Hours of Employment; 1 Fatigue, Duration and Intensity of Work; 2 The Effect of Changed Hours; 3 The Work Curve; 4 The Distribution of Hours of Work; Week-ends, Pauses and Shifts; Chapter V.-Physical Conditions and Types of Work; 1 Effect of Hours on Efficiency for Different Types of Work; 2 The Healthiness of Occupations; 3 Analysis of Physical Conditions; 4 Motion Study. 
505 8 |a Chapter VI.-Social Relationships in Employment1 The Social Pattern of Industry; 2 Recent Industrial Sociology; 3 Supervision, Discipline and Welfare; 4 Democratic Participation in Control; Chapter VII.-The Amount of the Wage; 1 The Wage and Working Capacity; 2 The Amount of the Wage as an Incentive to Work; 3 Wages as Attractives to Mobility; 4 Summary; Chapter VIII.-Methods of Wage Payment; 1 Comparative Efficiency of Time and of Piece Rates; 2 Collective Piece Wages and Profit Sharing; 3 Comparative Efficiency of Varieties of Individual Piece Rate; 4 The Setting of Piece Rates. 
505 8 |a 5 The Composite Wage SystemChapter IX.-Selection and Training of Individual Workers; 1 Importance of the Worker and his Home Situation; 2 Scientific Guidance and Selection; 3 Actual Selection Practice and its Consequences; 4 Training; Chapter X.-Types of Worker: Age and Sex; 1 The Young and Old Worker; 2 Women's Employment: Comparative Wage Rates; 3 Efficiency and Demand Conditions of Women's Labour; 4 Supply Conditions of Women's Labour; Part Three: Unemployment; Chapter XI.-The Incidence of Unemployment; 1 Personal Incidence; 2 The Time Incidence of Unemployment. 
505 8 |a 3 The Industrial Incidence4 The Local Incidence; 5 Technological Unemployment; 6 The Hard Core of Unemployment; Chapter XII.-The Prevention of Unemployment; 1 Underlying Conditions of Unemployment; 2 The Role of Investment; 3 The Policy of Security and Full Employment; 4 Full Employment, Mobility and Efficiency; Part Four: The Direction of Labour Policy; Chapter XIII.-The Control of Labour Conditions; 1 The Employer Let Alone; 2 Workers' Control; 3 State Participation in Negotiation; 4 Resort to State Regulation; 5 Principles of Joint Control. 
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