The Croup of Worker* 1H<> 



meet the case. No longer it any singK lual 



able to do the whole job of manufacturing a useful 

 product. His work does not stand by itself and 

 its value is dependent, not upon the result of the 

 ul operation entirely, but upon all (he 

 other work which is done in manufacturing the 

 product. So, the group of individuals must be 

 developed into a team of workers. 



Let us take, as an example, the making of 

 tables in a shop with tiftecn workers in the days 

 of the handworkers. Each man of the fifteen 

 was cutting his own lumber, drawing the design 

 of the table thereon, shaping each part, fitting 



:i together, and producing the final product. 

 Suppose we turn that shop into a miniature modern 

 factory where the workers are using machinery 

 the manufacture of those tables. One man 

 will draw the outline of the table and lay out 

 the work for the saw. Another man will saw the 

 lumber, the third man will give it the rough plan- 

 ing, the fourth man will turn the legs, and so on 

 through the operations. In this case, each man's 

 job depends for its value upon all of them work- 

 ing together and, unless all the operations are 

 continued, no tables can be made. Moreover, all 

 the operations must be coordinated so that just 

 the right amount of work is done. Then, there 

 will be no congestion at one point or another in 

 the processes. 



In the old hand shop, if there were not so many 



cs to be made, they could take away four or 



live or all the men but one and still make tables. 



