Use of Factory Statistics in the Investigation of Industrial Fatigue Volume 81, No. 3; A Manual for Field Research (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...Report. The difficulties of interpretation are, however, almost insuperable. The different incomes and habits of the several occupations, their different age-constitution, the difficulty of assigning to any one occupation those who have retired from work or those who have changed their work, create too many ambiguities. In the British report the causes of death are stated, and it is possible, after subtracting accidents and suicides, to ascertain what occupations are most liable to lead to specific fatal diseases in comparison to other fatal diseases. But until physiologists can tell us more of the effects of accumulated fatigue in producing specific diseases, this comparison, though clear of certain ambiguities, seems of little significance. 4. LABOR TURNOVER The labor turnover is the ebb and flow of employees into and from any factory's employment. It is often studied under the name labor recruitment, labor replacement, labor renewal, labor wastage, or hiring and firing, though the latter term disregards the fact that employees most often leave of their own accord without dismissal from the man 1 Recently the Occupational Mortality Experience of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in 1911-1913 collected by Louis Dublin has been published as Bulletin 207 of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, agement. The subject is of great importance in estimating the expenses of production. A high turnover means, among other costs, the perpetual training of new workers, and the accidents, spoiled materials and tools consequent on the introduction of new workers; idleness of equipment while new workers are engaged to replace the old and all the disorganization consequent on changes. For the investigator into fatigue the importance of turnover arises mainly in checking, ...