Review of The Man on the assembly line

Abstract

Reviews the book, "The Man on the assembly line," by C. R. Walker and R. H. Guest (see record 1953-03072-000 ). The authors have contributed this pilot study in an effort to increase our general knowledge of the adjustments made and the satisfactions derived by workers on an assembly line. It is a thorough, well-organized inquiry into the expressed feelings and attitudes of these men regarding many facets of their work. The essence of the problem seems to be that we have progressed too rapidly in the technique of mass production and it is time now to stop and re-organize our thinking to take into consideration the worker himself in order to solve some of the problems created. Many industrial engineers and members of plant management, however, are going to disagree until we can prove its economic effectiveness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)