Abstract
THE broadsheet “Man-power Movements” (No. 276), which Political and Economic Planning issued in January, develops further a theme on which an earlier broadsheet, “Framework of Collective Bargaining” (No. 272), published in October, had touched slightly ; a theme the importance of which has been accentuated by the growing seriousness of the economic situation of Great Britain. The existence of that crisis was not clearly recognized when the “Economic Survey for 1947” (Cmd. 7046) was issued, and even now the imminent risk of a further and still more serious reduction in our standard of living is not widely appreciated. Too little is still known, as this new broadsheet reminds us, about productivity ; it is recognized that redistribution of man-power is essential in order to realize the projected investment and consumption programmes, but the point is clearly made that man-power movements alone are insufficient. Economic planning is equally a matter of management, machines, materials, money and, as the broadsheet says pointedly, ministries ; and the value of man-power policy depends on its appropriateness in relation to other policies and to their general aim, which must contribute towards keeping the economy in balance.
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Mobility of Man-Power in Britain. Nature 161, 453–455 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161453a0
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