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EMPLOYMENT  PSYCHOLOGY

bule  school  has  been  discussed  here  almost  entirely  as  a
supplementary  means  of  selecting  the  unskilled  and  semiskilled ­
  workers  which  go  to  make  so  large  a  part  of  the
present  supply  of  labor.  The  education  of  skilled  mechanics ­
  and  highly  skilled  workers  of  all  kinds  has  not
been  touched  upon.  The  need  for  such  education  is
obvious,  but  the  methods  to  be  used  belong  rather  to  the
field  of  industrial  education  than  to  the  field  of  employment ­
  psychology.  Now,  however,  and  for  some  time  to
come,  there  will  be  an  enormous  class  of  workers  who
have  no  particular  trade  or  skill;  and  there  will  be  an
enormous  number  of  jobs  which  require  no  particular
skill  or  education.  The  task  which  confronts  industry,
therefore,  is  to  select  and  to  fit  applicants  for  the  work
which  is  to  be  done.  For  this  purpose,  the  vestibule
school  with  its  brief  course  of  training  is  almost  indispensable. ­