Review of Work, wages

Abstract

Reviews the book, Work, wages, and profits by H. L. Gantt (1916). The author of this work is a well-known expert in factory management, at one time associated with the late F. W. Taylor, and for years connected with the Midvale Steel Company. His book is made up of chapters delivered as addresses at business schools or elsewhere and published separately, for the most part serially in The Engineering Magazine. The first edition appeared in 1910, the second in 1912. The present issue is a revision and enlargement of the second. The increase of fifty per cent, in the size of the work has not resulted in a corresponding increase in the value, for the three new chapters either restate or illustrate the general principles. Clear in statement and ample in particular instance, the book is the expression of optimism in industrial life where many have seen but a return to economic enslavement and personal degradation. This optimism is made to apply to both employer and employee; but the interest of the author is unquestionably that of the business man rather than of the workman. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)