Organizing for WorkHarcourt, Brace and Howe, 1919 - 111 strani |
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Stran 107 - But it has so happened, in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have without labor enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
Stran 107 - Upon this subject the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes — useful labor, useless labor, and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious, and to it all the products of labor rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing ifc of a large portion of its just rights. The only remedy for this is to, so far as possible, drive useless labor and idleness out of existence.
Stran 102 - The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and to lead, to the advantage of all concerned.
Stran 32 - Most of the cost systems in use, and the theories on which they are based, have been devised by accountants for the benefit of financiers, whose aim has been to criticize the factory and to make it responsible for all the shortcomings of the business.
Stran 104 - We have proved in many places that the doctrine of service which has been preached in the churches as religion is not only good economics and eminently practical, but, because of the increased production of goods obtained by it, promises to lead us safely through the maze of confusion into which we seem to be headed, and to give us that industrial democracy which alone can afford a basis for industrial peace.
Stran 5 - The community needs service first, regardless of who gets the profits, because its life depends upon the service it gets . . . The . . . business system had its foundation in service, and as far as the community is concerned has no reason for existence except the service it can render...
Stran 29 - Another is to distribute a portion of this expense according to direct labor, and a portion to machine hours. Other methods distribute a certain amount of this expense on the material used, etc. Most of these methods contemplate the distribution of all of the indirect expense of the manufacturing plant, however much it may be, on the output produced, no matter how small it is. If the factory is running at its full, or normal, capacity, this item of indirect expense per unit of product is usually...
Stran 15 - The business system must accept its social responsibility and devote itself primarily to service, or the community will ultimately make the attempt to take it over in order to operate it in its own interest. "The spectacle of the attempt to accomplish this result in eastern Europe is certainly not so attractive as to make us desire to try the same experiment here. Hence, we should act, and act quickly, on the former proposition.
Stran 5 - ... the lines along which our present system grew up; namely, that its first aim should be to render service. It is this conflict of ideals which is the source of the confusion into which the world now seems to be driving headlong. The community needs service first, regardless of who gets the profits, because its life depends upon the service it gets. The business man says profits are more important to him than the service he renders; that the wheels of business shall not turn, whether the community...
Stran 28 - While it is possible to get quite accurately the amount of material and labor used directly in the production of an article, and several systems have been devised which accomplish this result, there does not yet seem to have been devised any system of distributing that portion of the expense known...