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Marot, Helen, 1865-1940

"Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators"


_Third: Up-keep of the Working Force, Buildings and Equipment._
(a) Heating, ventilating and lighting of the factory in relation
to its effect on the workers; (b) valuation for each worker of his
own physical condition and expert advice in regard to nutrition
and other physical needs; (c) care of motors and mechanical
equipment, care of belts, saws and cutters; (d) efficient
installation of motors, sectional drive and individual drive;
(e) disposition of sawdust, etc., study of exhaust fans and
construction operation and function.
_Fourth: The Economics of the Enterprise._ (a) The market of the
raw material--the study of the market in relation to grades, to
cost, to transportation, to quantity in cost of purchases, to time
of purchase; (b) manufactured product; selection of models
in relation to their use and their art values; their cost of
manufacture; relation to the selling price; the relation of cost
to quantity and quality; (c) the relation of the rate of wages
paid in the shop to rates paid in similar industries, to cost
of production, to needs of the workers; (d) necessary margin of
income over expenses for the up-keep of the plant, for its
extension, for the maintenance of the sinking fund and possible
contribution to the expense of the school; (e) the economic value
of the school to the work of the shop.
_Fifth: Art and Service.


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