TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
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1. Visit a factory, mill or shop in your vicinity and study the organization of the plant with regard to the application of the principle of the division of labor. Secure the amount of output per man by dividing the total product by the number of workmen co÷perating in its production. Compare the output per man under these conditions with the probable output per man if each workman were working separately, without material assistance from other workmen.
2. Study, both by inquiry and by observation, the effects of the division of labor upon the health and spirits of the workmen in the factory, mill or shop visited.
3. Classify the industries in your locality on the basis of whether they rely chiefly or entirely upon human, animal, water, steam or electric power. Why does each industry not utilize some other form of power than that actually used?
4. Classify some of the familiar occupation groups in your community according as they derive their incomes chiefly or entirely from land, labor, capital, or the process of co÷rdinating land, labor, and capital. Test the productivity of each group by the standard advanced in section 67 of the text.
5. Attempt to show to what extent each of the five factors of production has contributed toward the erection and furnishing of your schoolhouse.