The Individual Work* 185 



all thr departments had to be arranged in 

 relation to one another and to the object to be 

 attaint-, 1 This system had to be worked out with 

 the whole plant in mind and the rker 



had to tit himself into the arrangement. Where 

 the old hand worker had been able to chalk up 

 his transactions on the wall of the shop, it now 

 took a great deal of careful planning and system 

 ,-ep track of all the material, the many opera- 

 it, ami the hundreds of transactions essential 

 in tfie industrial establishment which succer 



Id shop. 



Uy the average article which is used by the 

 householder passes through many industries and 

 through hundreds of operations in coming from 

 the raw material to the finished product 

 lor use. 



Thr />/,//;;///.// H'orker Has Become an Oper- 

 ator. All this development meant that the sys- 

 II by which things were done became more and 

 more important and more and more intertwined, 

 so that no particular part of the work could be 

 done unless it was properly tied up to and ar- 

 ranged in connection with many other pieces of 

 work and many other departments. The indi- 

 ker no longer knew the trade as a 

 lie- became skilled in his own particular 

 part of it and no more The machinery had be- 

 come so subdivided and its cost so great, that it 

 kept turning out useful articles all the 

 time it was operating - to earn a profit. 



