Abstract
THE Industrial Fatigue Research Board, which was recently appointed by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Medical Research Committee jointly, has quickly got into the swing of its labours. It has just issued two brief reports, and announces other more lengthy reports which are in preparation. In Report No. 2 Mrs. Ethel E. Osborne describes “The Output of Women Workers in Relation to Hours of Work in Shell-making.” The women were engaged in the operation of “ripping” or “part-off” on 6-in. shells, and their output was compared when they were on twelvehour and, eight-hour shifts. The output of work achieved during each hour of actual work in the shorter shifts was 6.5 per cent, greater than in the longer shifts, but because of the improvement in timekeeping and the more efficient running of the machinery the production per hour of factory work was 15 per cent, greater. Determinations of hourly output showed that during the last hour of the long shifts there was always a low output, whilst on the short shifts output was maintained throughout.
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Industrial Fatigue . Nature 103, 493 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103493a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/103493a0