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7. What is the extent of unemployment in your community? What 

 is the extent of irregularity of employment ? What are the causes ? 

 What are the results ? How can work be made more regular ? 



8. What can be done to reduce accidents on highways ? on play- 

 grounds ? in theaters ? in workshops ? 



9. What classes of the population receive special protection from the 

 law? Why? Is the discrimination fair? 



10. What are some undesirable effects of excessive division of labor ? 

 How can these undesirable effects be eliminated or counterbalanced ? 



11. What are some of the desirable effects of excessive division of 

 labor ? Who gets the benefits ? 



REFERENCE READINGS 



Hough and Sedgwick. The Human Mechanism, chap, v. Work and 



Fatigue. 

 Public Health Bulletin 106 (Studies in Industrial Physiology), Fatigue 



in Relation to Working Capacity. 

 Public Health Bulletin j8, Influence of Occupation on Health during 



Adolescence. 

 Public Health Reprint 448, The Bearings of Physiological Science on 



Industrial Efficiency. 

 PubHc Health Reprint 513, The New Science of Industrial Physiology. 

 Public Health Reprint 234, Physical Examination of the Worker. 

 Public Health Reprint 302, Plan for Education in the Avoidance of 



Occupational Diseases and Injuries. 

 PubHc Health Reprint 341, Relation of Economic Status to Health of 



Garment Workers. 

 Public Health Reprint 530, Dust Hazards in the Abrasive Industries. 

 Public Health Reprint 441, Heat Hazard in Industries. 

 PubHc Health Reprint 499, Code of Lighting for Factories, Mills, etc. 



