Hours Of Work As Related To Output And Health Of Workers Silk Manufacturing Research Report Number 16 March 1919 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Hours of Work as Related to Output and Health of Workers: Silk Manufacturing, Research Report Number 16; March, 1919 The Board's investigation of the hours-of-work problem in the silk manufacturing industry was conducted along the same general lines as the earlier investigations in the cotton1 and wool' manufacturing industries. The results of the silk investigation, however, present a striking con trast with those for the two other textile industries studied. In the northern cotton industry, reductions to less than 56 hours per week involved a general loss in ouput in more than 90% of the establishments3 and in a majority of cases this loss was approximately proportional to the reduction in time. Again, in the wool industry, a reduction to a 54 - hour schedule resulted in a general loss in output, though the loss was somewhat less pronounced than in the cotton industry. 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.