REVIEWS. 
MOEN PEDO DDO SPOTS DE DODTLUD ODODE ADS 
INDUSTRIAL WELFARE WORK. 
Bulletin 15 of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry opens up 
new ground by dealing with problems of industrial organization and management. 
In 110 pages, it surveys the history, the motive, and the methods of what is 
variously described as “ welfare work,” “model employment,” “ employees’ better- 
ment,” &c. Such a Bulletin comes most opportunely at this juncture, for there 
is in Australia a rapidly-growing recognition that the future prosperity, and 
even the national safety, of the Commonwealth depends upon the establishment of 
more satisfactory relations between the two big factors concerned in the production 
of wealth. But as the author of the Bulletin points out in his preface, “ those 
relations are far wider than questions of wages and hours of labour, and any 
policy which confines its attention to those two matters alone is inadequate, 
and liable therefore to fail. A comprehensive industrial policy looks further 
afield, goes deeper, and faces such matters as the whole aim of industry, the 
responsibilities which fall on the shoulders of a man who employs other men, 
the effect of industrial conditions upon the worker and the work, the well-being 
of the employee outside working hours, the distribution of the wealth produced, 
and finally the participation of the employees in the management and control of 
industrial operation.” This Bulletin sets out to show what has been done along 
these lines by wide-awake employers in Europe and America. The employment 
policies of such firms as Ford, Goodyear, Cadbury, Lever, Krupp, &c., are analyzed, 
and much of the experience obtained by the British Ministry of Munitions is set 
forth. Eighteen chapters deal with such matters as the creation of a healthy, 
safe, pleasant factory environment, methods of engaging and dismissing workers, 
industrial fatigue and its relation to hours of labour, rest-pauses and holidays, 
discipline, methods of payment, aids to wages—such as stores, provident funds, 
profit-sharing and co-partnership, dining-rooms, social and educational activities, 
recreation, housing, and welfare work for juveniles. The last chapter deals 
with the conditions essential to successful welfare work, and is a frank, blunt 
statement of the whole matter. 
The information contained in this Bulletin will come as a revelation to many 
Australian employers, and employees, for welfare work is as yet only in its 
infancy in this country. A supplementary Bulletin is being prepared by the 
Institute, describing the character and extent of welfare provisions in Australian 
factories and shops. Meanwhile, all who wish to get new light on the vexed 
problem of industrial relationships are recommended to secure this Bulletin, 
which can be obtained for 64d., post free, from the Secretary, Institute of Science 
and Industry, 391 Bourke-street, Melbourne. 
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