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Letter to the American magazine
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Taylor, F.W. - Articles : "Principles of scientific management" - American magazine, 1911 - Letters from readers
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Sears, C. T.
Title
Letter
to the
American
magazine
Date
1911
Mar
.
14
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1 item (4 sheets) ; 27 cm.
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Industrial management--Moral and ethical aspects
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fore for a few
grinding poverty, mortal and physical exhaustion, joyless lives, stunted offsprings and "Old Age at Forty" for the many. Take the man Schmidt. He received the magnificent sum of $1.15 for putting 12 1/2 tons of pig iron on a car which was regarded as a days work of 10 hours. Because out of 71 men he was considered to be the most perfect specimen of human mechanism, he was selected to be "speeded up" to putting 47 1/2 tons of pig iron on a car in the same time for which additional 35 tons, he was paid at the rate of 2 [cents] a ton. The account states that only one man in 8 could accomplish the task. Follow those men up
say they are 25 years old
keep them handling pig iron at the rate of 47 1/2 tons a day, or the equivalent of that task and they will arrive at old age 5 years before they see forty. I have handled pig iron and know whereof I write. Scientific Management, indeed! I have not the data, but I know common sense would have suggested the use of a crane and magnet in handling that amount of iron. It would have done it in less time and at less cost. Side by side with the menacing concentration of capital, the labor unions are growing in numbers and power
the different organizations are becoming more and more friendly, more and more closely affiliated and agressive. The boast is open-
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