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In this title, first published in 1918, Lord Leverhulme explores
the ideas of co-partnership, piece-work, housing, and the benefits
of shorter hours of labour. The most notable of these discussions,
collected by Stanley Unwin, with a Preface by Lord Haldane,
advocates a six-hour day, with two shifts, in all industries in
which the overhead charges are equal to or larger than the cost of
weekly wages. Lord Leverhulme's view is that the employees work
better in a short working day and might produce as much in six
hours as in eight hours, and that in any case the machinery could
be utilized more profitably by running for the double shift of
twelve hours than for the single shift of eight hours. This seminal
work will be of interest to students of business studies and human
resource management.
In this title, first published in 1918, Lord Leverhulme explores
the ideas of co-partnership, piece-work, housing, and the benefits
of shorter hours of labour. The most notable of these discussions,
collected by Stanley Unwin, with a Preface by Lord Haldane,
advocates a six-hour day, with two shifts, in all industries in
which the overhead charges are equal to or larger than the cost of
weekly wages. Lord Leverhulme's view is that the employees work
better in a short working day and might produce as much in six
hours as in eight hours, and that in any case the machinery could
be utilized more profitably by running for the double shift of
twelve hours than for the single shift of eight hours. This seminal
work will be of interest to students of business studies and human
resource management.
Sir Stanley Unwin's best-known book was The Truth About Publishing.
It was first published in 1926 and held sway as a sort of
vade-mecum of the trade for decades afterwards. However as Sir
Stanley admits in his preface to this book, inspired by Arnold
Bennett's Truth About an Author, the book he first wanted to write
was The Truth About a Publisher. In the end that had to wait, not
being finally published until 1960. As the title suggests this is
the autobiographical companion to the earlier work. It is a full
and successful story: from the creation of George Allen and Unwin
('my life work' as Sir Stanley describes it) to his crucial work
for the Publishers Association, the International Publishers
Association and the British Council. The book is full of
fascinating stories of authors, publishers and books in the first
half of the twentieth-century.
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