for Mr. Taylor's Philosophy of Human Labor,—an outline of the fundamental principles on which it rests. In "Shop Management," however, the effort is made to describe the organization and some of the mechanisms by means of which this philosophy and these principles can be made effective in the workshop, or on the market place.
Mr. Taylor has written "Shop Management" in such a way that everything in it should be intelligible to any one with a high school education. It is the general testimony, however, of those who have used the book in actual practice that, with each re-reading, a larger significance attaches to its industrial program.
We are indebted to Mr. Calvin W. Rice, the distinguished Secretary of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, for his encouragement in bringing out this new edition of "Shop Management."
The Editor.
May, 1911.
