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THERE is a growing appreciation of the problem of the relation between management and labour: it is one which bristles with difficulties, in part because there is a lack of understanding on both sides and often, indeed, unwillingness to try to understand. As labour grows more and more independent, partly because of its political power, it becomes more necessary than ever to seek any and every means to promote such understanding, so that a factory can be run for the common weal, to give continuous remunerative employment to all connected with it, to give a fair return on the money invested in it, having regard to the risk, to set aside sufficient for depreciation and development so that the business may last for generations and not collapse exhausted in a few years like the wheat fields of the West after half a dozen crops.
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A., E. AN EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL SCIENCE. Nature 149, 143–144 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149143a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149143a0