Training the Industrial Worker

Health of the Industrial Worker

Psychology and the Industrial Worker

This is a more important book than its small size and unPretentious appearance would suggest. Its author, assistant director ?f research in Industrial Psychology at Cambridge, has provided a sUrvey of the principles underlying the application of psychology to industry, and has distilled from a vast volume of experimental Xvork an account of the most important achievements. It is thus a most use...

Assessing the health of the industrial worker.

In assessing the influence of an occupation on health, the main criterion must be disease, for it is measurable whereas " health " so far defies reliable measurement. The association between disease and occupation is easily observed when the clinical picture is clear as in lead poisoning or silicosis; but sometimes it is so obscure that it is only recognized by a man with a sharp and experience...

Mental Health of the Industrial Worker

This book is a study of car workers. It sets out indices of mental health, which can be assessed by a questionnaire and interview, and traces their relation to occupational levels, job satisfactions, characteristics ?f the job, personal characteristics and various aspects ?f the worker's orientation. There are, of course, already many opinions on this, based on impressions a.nd inferences; the ...

Medical grading of the industrial worker.

Towards the middle of 1943 the problem of supplying workers to replace the labour turn-over in a large Royal Ordnance Filling Factory became more acute through the transfer of a large number of the younger male and female workers to the forces and to other industries. Local recruitment on a large scale was necessary and in the fourth year of total war unemployed persons in an industrial area we...