Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Realizing the chance to create more efficient methods of hiring and "firing" labor, the Government is introducing a new type of experts, to be known as employment managers. In spite of a certain overemphasis that has tended to make us regard somewhat cynically efficiency experts in general, the need for them in all matters pertaining to labor is becoming increasingly apparent. While the selling of material commodities has become organized to the highest point, the selling of labor has been done for the most part in a completely haphazard manner. Trade unions have had some effect; private and semi-public...
...Government has made the right start towards meeting these conditions with its new system of employment managers. These men will be trained at business schools and colleges,--some here at the University,--and will have it their special task to solve the problems of labor in the Government's industries. Efficient hiring and "firing" will be their immediate duty, but to do this well they will have to obtain an exhaustive knowledge of labor conditions from every standpoint. They will see the necessity of organization, and will be in the best position to develop the methods of attaining...
...Modern warfare involves the maximum contribution to the labor and material resources of a nation. The available labor and material resources are fixed within relatively narrow limits. In order to do our part in this war the existing labor supply must be transferred in as great a degree as possible to the production of materials necessary for the maintenance of civilian life and the production of war materials in the greatest possible volume...
...extent that individuals buy unnecessary things, that is, wearing apparel, jewelry and food, they are depriving the Government of labor which can be employed in the production of ammunition, rifles, automobiles, food-stuffs, etc., necessary to the maintenance and operation of an army. On this account the duty of each individual citizen is not only to subscribe to the limit of his ability, but also to resolve to pay that subscription out of a reduced expenditure for living purposes. Subscriptions for Liberty Bonds made in this way not only give the Government a means of purchasing war materials, but also...
...unessential or extravagant purchases and investing the resulting savings in bonds, he materially aids in war production. Again, as Mr. Clark has said, his accomplishment is two-fold. He discourages the non-essential industries, which are competing against the Government, creating a rise in prices and scarcity of labor, and he contributes funds with which the Government may finance...