Show LEISURE A LABOR FACTOR english workmen dont seem to take kindly to scientific management the workman like the british employer hus has fi a special psychology and german methods nor amerlean american methods wholly go down with him will irnen writes in the saturday evening rest post your briton of any class clas does not like to work so much as the german or the american ile he sets value and I 1 think sensibly on leisure ne ile wants time for a little sport and a little tall talk in his club or ills his bar it may be this radical tendency it may be an inheritance of 0 the restriction on output system but the english laborer seems often indifferent differ eat to high wages while vitally interested in keeping the employer from loading him with too much work tile the factories in this period of national stress have been importing american efficiency experts schooled in one or another system of scientific management I 1 find that the british trades unionists learned their trade with general suspicion believing their premium bonus systems are arc only excuses for speeding up as in some hands they are in fact american speeding up seems a kind of bogey with british workingmen again and again labor leaders told me as a matter of common axiomatic knowledge that the american workman la Is short lived and this anecdote was told twice in my hearing from the platforms of labor itee meetings tings an englishman inspected an amerlean american factory near new york fork the superintendent showed him the plant with great pride and boasted of their tremendous output your tour operatives are all young men I 1 notice said the englishman where here tire are your old men outside said the superintendent and ile he took him out and showed him a graveyard |