Industrial Progress and Human Economics
1921
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Address all communications
relative to industries
Commissioner of Industries
Montpelier
Vermont.
This book is published by private funds
Fellow Citizen:
Vermont's natural resources have been set forth in State publications, not adequately, but nevertheless, in well prepared publications.
Supplementing such publications this book deals with our human resources, showing the way by which our greatest resource—human energy—can be most effectively employed. It uses the welfare of man as the yardstick of measure rather than treating the subjects under the head of natural resources.
At the present time the productive power of a day's work varies greatly throughout the country. It reaches its highest point where the most efficient implements and machines are used; where there is a high degree of special ability acquired by each executive and workman, such as has been attained in our highly specialized manufacturing industries, many of which may be found in our neighboring states. The upbuilding of such organizations is only in its infancy. There is now a natural drift away from congested cities to adjacent states where plants and homes may be spread out over larger areas.
James Hartness
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FOREWORD.
CONQUEST OF PEACE.
VERMONT FAVORABLY LOCATED.
OUR PROBLEM.
HAVE FAITH IN VERMONT.
OUR INDUSTRIAL POLICY.
LIMITATIONS OF MAN'S PROGRESS.
PROTECT THE INDUSTRIAL SPIRIT.
WHAT IS NOT AN INDUSTRY.
"DEAD" ORGANIZATIONS.
SOME INDUSTRIAL HOWS, WHYS AND WHATS.
NEW INDUSTRIES.
INVENTOR'S PROPORTION.
MANUFACTURERS AND NEW INDUSTRIES.
HABIT ACTION, BASIS OF SKILL AND PROFICIENCY.
SPECIALIZATION.
Good Results with Moderate Effort.
Physical Condition of Worker.
Capacity for New Ideas.
Money not the Only Dividend.
Right Placing of Men.
Unimportant Details.
Cure for Mind Wandering.
The Manager's View.
Sub-division of Work.
Care in Applying New Theories.
Progressive Energy.
Profit by Experience.
Dissipation of Energies.
Tying up Capital in Stock in Process of Construction.
Cost of the Product.
Largest Profit Per Dollar Invested.
The Workers Help Bring Success.
Have Faith in Your Products.
Specialization.
INVENTION
Be Practical.
The Inventor Sees Opportunities to Improve.
Improvements May Be Disasterous.
Natural Fitness.
Repeated Thinking.
Concentrating Attention.
Interest Must be Awakened, Not Forced.
Establishing Useful Ruts.
All Men are Human Beings.
Easiest Way to Improve.
Technical View Insufficient.
Inventions Should Not Mix With Details.
Designing by the Square Foot.
Problems to Consider.
The Hero of the Eraser.