The Citizen in His Relation to the Industrial Situation
The book The Citizen in His Relation to the Industrial Situation was written by author Henry Codman Potter Here you can read free online of The Citizen in His Relation to the Industrial Situation book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Citizen in His Relation to the Industrial Situation a good or bad book?
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It is one of the vices of our modern system of manu- factures that the proportions of it have all but inevitably dismissed in the work or its charac- ter the quality of individual touch. A thou- sand Waltham watches, we are told, will run more nearly together than a thousand Jurgen- sen watches, if Jules Jurgensen ever made 186 THE CORPORATION a thousand, whicli I doubt ; but when done they are, after all, nothing but machines, while his is a work of art. Now, the task of the modern manager sho...uld be to resist this modern ten- dency, and most of all to resist it in connection with its tendency to mechanicalize men; and I venture to say that, in the mill or the fac- tory where that consideration has been re- spected, where men have been regarded and treated as men and not as machinery, where the daily contacts have been tempered by courtesy, kindliness, and consideration, the effect upon the men and their work has been direct, appreciable, and marketable, in the improved and bettered character of their prod- uct.
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