Industrial Administration: A Series of Lectures

Abstract

THE lectures published in this volume were delivered in the department of industrial administration in the College of Technology, Manchester, during the session 1918–19, by various well-known authorities on subjects relating to industrial administration. Mr. Seebohm Rowntree discourses on the “Social Obligations of Industry to Labour,” and endeavours to fix the minimum wage compatible with the maintenance of a working man and his family in decency and moderate comfort. In answer to the question: “Can industry afford to pay the minimum wages indicated? ” he believes that the principal source to which we must look for increased wages is increased efficiency in the organisation and administration of industrial enterprises. Many British factories are run on very inefficient lines, with antiquated machinery and ill-trained staff and workers, and in such cases the profits are inconsiderable even when wages are low.

Industrial Administration: A Series of Lectures.

By A. E. Berriman and Others. (Publications of the University of Manchester. No. cxxxi.) Pp. vii + 203. (Manchester: At the University Press; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920.) Price 7s. 6d. net.