Durch die Kriegswirtschaft zur Naturalwirtschaft

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Identifikator:: 891221816

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-76666

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Neurath, Otto http://d-nb.info/gnd/118587420

Title:: Durch die Kriegswirtschaft zur Naturalwirtschaft

Place of publication:: München

Publisher:: Verlag von Georg D. W. Callwey

Year of publication:: 1919

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (231 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY, LABOR, AND INDUSTRY 385 for the recent dearth of labor is that labor has been so cheap in the past that we have come to depend on it as wholly as the South, at one time, depended on slavery. Dirty work is no more necessary now than slavery was then. To make dirty work less dirty requires only a little thought and ingenuity. It is not an inescapable evil. The same may be said about arduous physical labor. To eliminate or ameliorate the objectionable conditions, when in the course of progress they become objectionable, is only another little problem for man’s inventive and mechan ical ingenuity to meet. And, queerly enough, education, at the same time at which it develops men and women who find dirty and monotonous work objectionable, also develops the skill and knowledge by which these objec tionable features can be removed. So far as industry goes, there can never be a superabundance of educated people, even though managers are sometimes put to it to make use of intelligent workers in an intelligent way. The other contention, that education will make workers dissatisfied with the highly specialized and monotonous types of work brought about by the invention of machin ery and thereby retard industrial progress, may be an swered in much the same way. Education can never hope to solve the problem of labor turnover by attempting to create artisans and craftsmen of the old type. This is one of the pretty dreams of retrospective Utopians, and runs counter to the entire trend of productive civilization. Not by the abolition of machinery but by a further and an even undreamed-of development of mechanical devices will education help solve the problem of labor turnover. Machines must more and more be made to do the work for which labor is becoming scarce or which labor is un willing to do. But instead of workers being mated to a

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