Die Entwicklung der Weißgerberei

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Identifikator:: 883887894

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-6560

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Ebert, Georg

Title:: Die Entwicklung der Weißgerberei

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: A. Deichert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XL, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 2.Teil. Die Produktionsprinzipien

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4 dent to a just understanding of the economic changes and possi- bilities in the Empire. XXVIL—TECHNICAL SKILL AND LABOUR. 117. Rubber is a difficult material and the fundamental principles upon which its treatment depends are as yet imperfectly under- stood. Consequently opportunities for research into its treatment and use exist. We deal in a later section with the provisions made for research and scientific control. During the last 20 years: the industry has changed over very largely from traditional rule of thumb methods to the very general use of scientific investigation. Another instance of the change in progress is afforded by the open- ing of courses on rubber at technical schools. In Great Britain, for example, ‘this educational development has been fostered by the Institution of the Rubber Industry which was founded in 1921 “to promote a better understanding and a closer relationship between all branches of the Rubber Industry and to encourage and widen the scope of technical education in order to secure the well trained Chemist, Engineer, Technologist and Operative to main- tain and enlarge the Rubber Industry.” The Institution has assisted in founding Rubber Schools in connection with the Northern Polytechnic in London and the Trades School, Manchester. It also.conducts examinations and grants diplomas of efficiency in General Rubber Technology, Science (Chemistry and Physics) applied to rubber and in Engineering (Mechanical and Electrical) connected with rubber. Much of the labour in a rubber factory—the proportion depend- ing of course on the type of goods produced—must be skilled, either as the result of long experience or of technical training combined with experience. Although improvements in factory processes are of great importance, particularly in some of the old established works, it seems very unlikely that rubber manufacture will ever become an automatic process. Skilled supervision will still be required and much of the labour employed will be classified as skilled or at least semi-skilled. For the production of many types of rubber goods labour charges will still figure largely in the pro- ductive costs of even the most up-to-date factory. 118. The type of labour in the rubber manufacturing industry depends upon the particular class of goods manufactured. In the rubber shoe and garment making trades, for instance, women workers predominate, while in the tyre trade the number of women is smaller and the greater proportion are men. . ‘Throughout the industry, the heavy preparatory operations of compounding, callendering and tubing are carried out by men, the employment of female labour being restricted to making up work where this is relatively light in character. The making of waterproof garments 6228 oa Skilled labour: technical education. Variety of types of labour.

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