Industrial Progress
and
Human Economics
By
James Hartness
1921
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Address all communications
relative to industries
to
Commissioner of Industries
Montpelier
Vermont.
This book is published by private funds
Fellow Citizen:
Vermont's natural resources have been set forth in Statepublications, not adequately, but nevertheless, in wellprepared publications.
Supplementing such publications this book deals with our humanresources, showing the way by which our greatest resource—humanenergy—can be most effectively employed. It uses the welfare ofman as the yardstick of measure rather than treating the subjectsunder the head of natural resources.
At the present time the productive power of a day's work variesgreatly throughout the country. It reaches its highest point wherethe most efficient implements and machines are used; where thereis a high degree of special ability acquired by each executive andworkman, such as has been attained in our highly specializedmanufacturing industries, many of which may be found in ourneighboring states. The upbuilding of such organizations is onlyin its infancy. There is now a natural drift away from congestedcities to adjacent states where plants and homes may be spread outover larger areas.
The personal side of this to each man is the supreme need of abetter understanding of human economics; that is, he must know thebest way to use his own energies, and since he must work incooperation with others he should also know what constitutes themost effective and successful organization. As a skilled worker,as a scientist in some branch of the work, as an executive incharge of some department, as a manager, investor or banker, hemust keenly sense the conditions on which progress is made.
This book is written for the progressive young man as well as allthose directly or indirectly interested in industrial development.It is at once a text book and a reference book, for, as a workmanor executive advances he will find need of information on many ofthe points herein set forth.
If the book has no immediate interest to you, please pass it alongto another.
Faithfully yours,
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Governor.
FOREWORD.
The purpose of this book is to indicate the natural way toincrease our industrial development. To accomplish this there isset forth an outline of an industrial policy. This policy relatesto procedure and methods for starting and managing industrialplants.
It conforms to our economic conditions and offers the safest andeasiest course.
While it is written to create more desirable industrialestablishments within the state and to increase the vitality ofthe existing plants, it is distinctly a guide for the individual,for it facilitates the progress of the man as well as that of thestate.
It is a practical policy that stimulates and energizes theindustrial spirit and at the same time, directs our energies alongthe easiest road of progress in personal and state development.
It sets forth certain fundamental principles that apply broadly toall activities, but specifically to manufacturing and the meansand methods that must be employed to win in the industrialconquest.
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