Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency
Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency

Author: H. M. Vernon

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-05-29

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1000595684

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First published in 1921, Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency aims to provide a fairly complete overview of industrial fatigue and its influence on efficiency. It brings crucial themes like fatigue and its measurement; output in relation to weekly hours of work; output and hours of work in various industries; the six- hours day and multiple shifts; work spells and rest periods; limitation of output; lost time and its causation; sickness and mortality; industrial accidents and their causation; the prevention of industrial accidents; and adoption of healthy factory conditions, to showcase the importance of adequate lighting, heating and ventilation, washing facilities, cloak rooms, ambulance room and a well found canteen as basic requirements in factories. This book is an important historical document for scholars and researchers of labour studies, labour economics, industrial studies, and political economy.

Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
Psychology and Industrial Efficiency

Author: Hugo Munsterberg

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1775414124

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Commercial air flight, mass manufacturing, ergonomic design -- many cornerstones of twenty-first century life have been made possible through the study of industrial efficiency and human factors. In Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, pioneering researcher Hugo Munsterberg elucidates many of the core concepts of this field of study.

Fatigue Study, the Elimination of Humanity's Greatest Unnecessary Waste: A First Step in Motion Study
Fatigue Study, the Elimination of Humanity's Greatest Unnecessary Waste: A First Step in Motion Study

Author: Frank Bunker Gilbreth

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780353586093

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