This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... VI PAYMENT BY RESULTS At the present moment (1917) it is not too much to say that British workmen have a feeling of grave apprehension as to their position after the war. It was not merely that the workmen have, unfortunately, lost all confidence in Government promises as regards the treatment of Labour. The employers, it is believed, simply will not consent to restore, in any genuine way, the status quo ante helium as regards the conditions under which their factories are run; and what is doubted is the capacity, as well as the willingness, of the Government to enforce the restoration otherwise than nominally and perfunctorily. It is around the introduction or the retention of this or that system of Payment by Results that the storm will burst. Other dangerous topics, like the entrance of women or of unskilled men upon the tasks formerly monopolised by skilled craftsmen, or the changing lines of demarcation between different trades, are themselves aggravated by the quarrels over piecework. It is very largely by its insistence on new kinds of piecework payment that the American campaign of "Scientific Management"--to which I shall allude later--arouses such bitter resentment. And it is the widespread enforcement, since the beginning of the war, of piecework systems of remuneration in different branches of the British engineering industry that will present the greatest difficulty to the Government in fulfilling its pledge that all the departures from the former practice and customs of the workshop shall be, without qualification, undone and reversed.1 The quarrel about payment by the piece as against payment by the hour is almost invariably misunderstood. It is often assumed that workmen, and especially Trade Unionists, object to piecework. So far is this ...
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