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Title: Personnel and employment problems in industrial management ..
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Academy of Political and Social Science Bloomfield, Meyer, 1878-1938, ed Willits, Joseph Henry, 1889- joint ed
Subjects: Factory management Industrial efficiency Personnel management
Publisher: Philadelphia, The American Academy of political and social science
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store, of course, is that it is forced to follow the exampleof its competitors. While the seasons in different branches of the womens gar-ment industries do not coincide, all concerns lose a proportion-ately large percentage of the annual time. A manufacturer ofladies shirt waists employing several hundred hands has the fol-lowing to say regarding the irregularity of employment in thatindustry and the influence that extreme styles have on regularityof employment: We run almost to capacity from January to June. From June to Januarywe run at practically 50 per cent capacity. We are especially slack from June toOctober. Conditions used to be such that the irregularity always characteristicof our business was a constant thing which we could predict in advance. Know-ing when it occurred, we could sit up nights and plan against it, and figure outsome way to reduce irregularity in production and employment. We couldfurnish employment during our dull seasons by manufacturing to stock. Shirt-
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Steadying Einploymeni 27 waists were fairly well standardized and there were no extreme styles. Orderswould come in ten months before delivery was reciuired, and the plant couldmanufacture fairly regularly since it could make up these orders wheneverconvenience demanded. Frequently we could make up stock in the off seasontill we would have 100,000 shirtwaists piled up which we would work off in thebuying season. Frequently we would make from ten to twelve thousand waistswithout an order. We knew that the worst we would have to do would be tosimply swap dollars. Nowadays, we rarely make over twenty-five garmentswithout orders. Although it is widely considered that mens clothing is sostandardized that there can be little irregularity of productiondue to the variety of cloth and style, it is nevertheless true thatthe style-irregularity is only somewhat less than in womens clothing.The off seasons are less than half as long as the off seasons in thewomens clothing business. How irregular

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