The principles of industrial welfare / by John Lee.

  • Lee, John, 1867-1928
Date:
1924
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Credit: The principles of industrial welfare / by John Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE The rapid advance of methods of safeguarding the welfare of workers in industry both intensively and extensively, both as regards the content of the methods themselves and as regards the number of industries which have adopted them, calls for a study of the underlying principles. This study is an attempt to show the philosophy which lies behind the various welfare systems. Quite frankly I am of opinion that this movement has within it the potentiality of exercising an immense influence for good. It is usual for writers on modern industrialism to condemn it root and branch or to see in it a development towards a social revolution. I think that within industrialism itself there are forces at work, many of them silent and unobtrusive, which may in the fullness of time effect changes of which to-day we can only dream. One of these forces, in my view, is the welfare movement. I have not hesitated to point out what seem to me to be dangers and defects, but I do not choose to allow myself to be blinded by those apparent dangers and defects to the value of the spirit of mutuality which I am sure is being fostered by the movement. This is a pioneer book. There are many books which deal with the practice of Industrial Welfare. I do not know any book which has attempted to discover the underlying principles, to analyse the various efforts which can be grouped under the heading of welfare methods, or to correlate the movement to its position in the history of industrial development. If my conjecture is correct
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