THE QUESTION OF FATIGUE FROM THE ECONOMIC STANDPOINT. 349 



With this purpose in view Weber studied the output of .a Westphalian cotton- 

 weaving establishment from the indications of registers on the looms and ho 

 presents his records in (he following tabulations :— 



1. 2nd article, p. 249 :— The daily output of looms on similar work for 30 sue 



cessive days. 

 2- „ „ 249 : — The daily output of one loom for 25 successive daj-s. 



•"• " " 252 :— The output of each day of the week for 100 weeks. ' 



(Quoted in Table I. of this Report.) 

 '*■ " " 273 : — A study of different individu.al workers, specifying 



their age and working habits, &c. 

 (i) Their piece earnings. 



(ii) The daily variation of their output within the week, 

 (iii) Their weekly output (average of G days). 



5. 3rd article, p. 739 :— The length of training required for new kinds of work, 

 p. 744 :— The degree of ' increasing stability ' acquired byijractice. 



These Tables, as Weber himself carefully warns us, are not sufficient to 

 establisli any conclusion, but are simply given for methodological illustration 



In his fourth and last article Weber traces in great detail all the events 

 occurring withm a definite period in the life and work of specified individuals 

 choosing some women turners (Andreherin) as an example of hand-workers and 

 some weavers as an example of machine-workers, and explaining according to 

 actual occurrences the variations in their output, pay, practice, &c &c 



Many of the suggestions of Weber have been incorporated in this Report, 

 particularly his enumeration of some of the conditions of fatigue (Section I ) 



