Part II: The Foreman 



Till SYSTEM AND THE WORKER 



Section I 



The liuimilual Worker 



The lual System of Production. V 



the only tools \\ ch the work of production 



could be accomplished were hand tools, the ap- 

 prentice learned the whole system of the work in 

 the learning of his trade. It was an individual sys- 

 tem of production. The choice of the materials, 

 the design of the article, the making of each part 

 of the article, the fitting and the finishing were 

 all done by the same worker. The apprentice, 

 who was bound for his five or seven years to any 

 one of the trades, learned all the things which 

 entered into the making of the finished product. 



The cabinet maker, for instance, who was en- 

 gaged in making furniture, chose the wood accord- 

 ing to his ideas of how it would work up for the 

 piece he had in mind, laid out his design upon 

 the wood, arranged his work so that he completed 

 each part in the sequence of its importance, 

 brought the parts together in the final assembly, 

 decorated and finished them. The boy, who was 

 learning his trade at the same bench, was thus 

 taught the entire system used by the craftsman 

 in making the product. 



No other system was necessary. People did 

 not read or write much in those days and very 



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