Common Sense in Labor Management (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Common Sense in Labor Management In this book I have tried to bring into clear definition the more important relations between employers and employees, with an appraisement of methods proved successful in harmonizing them. My function has been that of a reporter, in large part, for the ideals and policies expressed herein are not impractical ideals or policies of mere theory. I have gone to experienced managers for them. My task has been one of selection and formulation. Hence, my debts to broad-thinking business men from coast to coast are so numerous that I should be unfair to all if I singled out any for special mention. I must not fail, however, to record my deep satisfaction and gratefulness for the opportunities afforded through my association with the A. W. Shaw Company, for the preparation of this book. 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.




Common Sense in Labor Management


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This book offers practical advice for labor management, drawing from the author's experience in the industrial world. Clark emphasizes the importance of communication and cooperation between workers and management to achieve success and avoid conflict. He also addresses topics such as labor laws, worker rights, and employee training. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.




Common Sense


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Common Sense in Labor Management


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Between the covers of this book may be found an admirable synopsis of the problems of industrial management in practically every field. Of course a small volume such as this could not go very deeply into any of these subjects. A volume might well be devoted to each chapter. Especially is this assertion true of those chapters which deal with industrial democracy, industrial unrest, good suggestion systems, and the fallacy of panaceas. To the efficient industrial manager, the book is a handy reference for frequent review. It calls to his attention numerous problems demanding solution in his own plant. It is a sort of yardstick by which he can test whether satisfactory progress has been made. For the manager who is not yet awake to modern industrial conditions many of the pages will strike as shrill a note as that coming from the factory whistle. If this note awakens the manager to the necessity of improvement in his plant, a complete perusal of the book will be well worthwhile. In discussing hours of work, Mr. Clark says: "No problem, except wages, is more commonly a bone of contention between the management and workers than the hours of work. The time a man has to himself away from his job is one of his most precious possessions, when he is not keenly interested in his work. And it is, I believe, a more serious indictment against industrial conditions and management methods than is commonly supposed that the debate on this question should be so serious and, commonly, acrimonious. It is unquestioned that certain types of work are so arduous that short hours are essential. And it is not to the interest of the employer or of the employee that the work should be continued beyond a reasonable period. The worker tends to lose his health or resilience, and he has no proper opportunity to participate in social, recreational, and educational activities. The employer, on the other hand, buys the work of a decreasingly efficient man." --Manufacturing Industries, Volume 1




The Commonsense of Political Economy


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This is Volume XXI of twenty-three in a collection on the History of Economic Thought. Originally published in 1933, this volume offers selected papers and reviews on economic theory as the first volume of two.




Common Sense in Labor Management


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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.




Right Away & All at Once


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An expert in business turnaround shares his inspiring approach to problem-solving: “A fascinating read” (Mitt Romney). Visionary leader Greg Brenneman believes that true business success and personal fulfillment are two sides of the same coin. The techniques that will grow your business will also help you achieve a rich, purposeful, and integrated life. Here, Brenneman takes what he’s learned from turning around or tuning up many businesses—including Continental Airlines and Burger King—and distills it into a simple, clear, five-step roadmap that anyone can follow. He teaches you how to: *prepare a succinct Go Forward plan *build a fortress balance sheet *grow your sales and profits *choose all-star servant leaders *empower your team For more than thirty years, Brenneman has seen these steps foster dramatic results in a variety of business environments. But he also came to realize that he could apply these same principles to improve his life and build a lasting moral legacy. He found he could make better decisions by carefully taking the most important facets of his life—faith, family, friendship, fitness, and finance—into consideration. Brenneman’s inspiring examples, from both his business and his life, demonstrate the astounding effects these steps can have when you apply them—right away and all at once.




The Republic in Print


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"In the beginning, all the world was America." John Locke In the beginning, everything was America, but where did America begin? In many narratives of American nationalism (both popular and academic), the United States begins in print-with the production, dissemination, and consumption of major printed texts like Common Sense , the Declaration of Independence, newspaper debates over ratification, and the Constitution itself. In these narratives, print plays a central role in the emergence of American nationalism, as Americans become Americans through acts of reading that connect them to other like-minded nationals. In The Republic in Print, however, Trish Loughran overturns this master narrative of American origins and offers a radically new history of the early republic and its antebellum aftermath. Combining a materialist history of American nation building with an intellectual history of American federalism, Loughran challenges the idea that print culture created a sense of national connection among different parts of the early American union and instead reveals the early republic as a series of local and regional reading publics with distinct political and geographical identities. Focusing on the years between 1770 and 1870, Loughran develops two richly detailed and provocative arguments. First, she suggests that it was the relative lack of a national infrastructure (rather than the existence of a tightly connected print network) that actually enabled the nation to be imagined in 1776 and ratification to be secured in 1787-88. She then describes how the increasingly connected book market of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s unexpectedly exposed cracks in the evolving nation, especially in regards to slavery, exacerbating regional differences in ways that ultimately contributed to secession and civil war. Drawing on a range of literary, historical, and archival materials-from essays, pamphlets, novels, and plays, to engravings, paintings, statues, laws, and maps The Republic in Print provides a refreshingly original cultural history of the American nation-state over the course of its first century.




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