The science of labour and its organization / by Josefa Ioteyko.

  • Józefa Joteyko
Date:
1919
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    fact affecting the working population as a whole of the various countries, but particularly with regard to certain districts or to certain categories of workers. Treves, of Turin, expresses himself as follows, “ The work in the experimental physiological and psychological laboratories would be sterile and of very limited interest, if the doctor in the course of his researches did not ask himself which are, in practical life, the circumstances equivalent to those created by his experiments. We may say that, from whatever branch of human knowledge it may emanate, every concep¬ tion carried into the field of applied knowledge implies some contribution to the solution of some social problem, and we cannot eliminate the social problem of labour when speaking of the aetiology of industrial over-work.” The statistics of the accidents connected with labour, which shed such a vivid light on the phenomena of the fatigue of workmen, have been studied by Imbert and Mestre.1 In fact, work engenders fatigue, and that is chiefly produced by modifications which supervene in the manner in which the motor at work acts, and which consists in a slackening and diminution 1 Sec : Imbert, Lcs accidents de travail et les compagnies d'Assurances (Revue scientifiquc, 4 Jiiin, 1904). Imbert and Mestre, 5tatistiques d'accidents du travail. Ibid., 24 Septembre, 190 j).
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