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THE word ‘production’, like its fellow 'output', is an uninspiring word. Those of us who must use it for convenience need to remind ourselves at intervals that it is a general term and really stands for concrete things. Behind each article is an innumerable company of human beings, each with his hopes and fears, dreams and realities. This may be a machine age ; industry may be mechanized, but personally I have never met the mechanized human being.
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SMITH, M. THE HUMAN FACTOR IN PRODUCTION*. Nature 150, 142–144 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150142a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150142a0