Labour

ISBN-13: 9780415313810 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 230 str.

P. Sargant Florence

Opis

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 estimating man-power, analysing the human factor and measuring labour efficiency, the book summarizes contemporary evidence on employment conditions for or against efficiency and the effect upon the incidence of unemployment.

Spis treści

PART ONE - LABOUR RESOURCES and UTILIZATION 1. MAN-POWER (1) Man-power and its Composition (2) Recent Changes in Man-Power and its Allocation (3) Qualitative Differences 2. 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 3. MEASURES OF LABOUR EFFICIENCY (1) Inefficiency and its Costs (2) Quantity, Quality and Economy of Output (3) Industrial Accidents (4) Absence (5) Strikes (6) Labour Turnover (7) Unemployment PART TWO - LABOUR IN EMPLOYMENT 4. 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 5. 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 6. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN EMPLOYMENT (1) The Social Pattern of Industry (2) Recent Industrial Sociology (3) Supervision, Discipline and Welfare (4) Democratic Participation in Control 7. THE AMOUNT OF THE WAGE (1) The Wage and Working Capacity (2) The Amount of Wages as an Incentive to Work (3) Wages as Attractives to Mobility (4) Summary 8. 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 (5) The Composite Wage System 9. 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 10. 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 11. THE INCIDENCE OF UNEMPLOYMENT (1) Personal Incidence (2) The Time Incidence of Unemployment (3) The Industrial Incidence (4) The Local Incidence (5) Technological Unemployment (6) The Hard Core of Unemployment 12. 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 13. 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 14. SOCIAL PROGRESS AND POLICY (1) Criteria of Progress (2) The Actual Course of Progress (3) The Causes and Future of Progress (4) Progress and Social Policy (5) Policy Enlightened and Informed

O autorze

Florence, P. Sargant