Work Study Volume 16 Issue 9

Abstract

THE need to increase the productivity of British industry is a common topic and when it is discussed the more economic use of manpower is inevitably raised. What is often lost sight of is the fact that future gains of productivity will be derived, as they were in the past, from a wider use of better machines rather than from more intensive effort by human beings. Such machines are expensive. Some of them, like the sophisticated machine tools described by the grandiose name of ‘machining centres’, are extremely costly.

Citation

(1967), "Work Study Volume 16 Issue 9", Work Study, Vol. 16 No. 9, pp. 9-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048223