 | 1916 - 742 pages
...INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE AND ITS CAUSES. In the pamphlet on industrial fatigue and its causes, fatigue is defined as the sum of the results of activity which show themselves in diminished capacity for doing work. The performance of work, it is pointed out, depends upon the activities of the complex nervous mechanisms... | |
 | 1917 - 468 pages
...of only moderate severity. Recently, however, a pamphlet on "Industrial Fatigue and its Causes 2 " has been issued by the British Health of Munition...considering the effects of fatigue on children and their development, diminished output would be an adequate test even in an occupation where output could... | |
 | Amy Hewes, Henriette Rose Walter - 1917 - 192 pages
...to benefit the industries of the country during the succeeding years of peace."t Fatigue is defined as "the sum of the results of activity which show themselves in a diminished capacity for doing work," not to be determined in its early stages, at least, by the subjective... | |
 | National Conference of Social Work (U.S.). Annual Session - 1923 - 582 pages
...disturbances. Industrial fatigue is a drag on the wheels of industry. In this sense fatigue has been defined as "the sum of the results of activity, which show themselves in a diminished capacity for work."2 The modern employer and the community more generally will come to... | |
 | Henriette Rose Walter - 1917 - 52 pages
...to benefit the industries of the country during the succeeding years of peace."* Fatigue is defined as "the sum of the results of activity which show themselves in a diminished capacity for doing work," not to be determined in its early stages, at least, by subjective... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1916 - 744 pages
...INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE AND ITS CAUSES. In the pamphlet on industrial fatigue and its causes, fatigue is denned as the sum of the results of activity which show themselves in diminished capacity for doing work. The performance of work, it is pointed out, depends upon the activities of the complex nervous mechanisms... | |
 | Henry John Spooner - 1918 - 340 pages
...they will give in a condensed form the accepted results of investigations and researches. Fatigue is the sum of the results of activity which show themselves in diminished capacity for work. From which it follows that output in work will give the most direct test of fatigue, other things... | |
 | Sir William Maddock Bayliss - 1919 - 334 pages
...diminishes, and their output goes down. Fatigue is defined by The Health of Munition Workers Committee1 as "the sum of the results of activity which show themselves in a diminished capacity for doing work ". Hence the essential condition of all efficient labour is that... | |
 | Edgar Leigh Collis - 1920 - 308 pages
...available is that of output. Fatigue has been defined by the " Health of Munition Workers Committee" [12] as "the sum of the results of activity which show themselves in a diminished capacity for doing work." This capacity for doing work can be judged only from the output,... | |
 | Waldo Ralph Browne - 1921 - 600 pages
...efficiency of the organism occurring after labor and partly dependent upon it"; in another definition, it is "the sum of the results of activity which show themselves in diminished capacity for doing work." Prolonged or excessive effort, according to Dr. EM Bogardus, in his book on "The Relation of Fatigue... | |
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Committee which defines fatigue as "the sum of the results of activity which show themselves in diminished capacity for doing work," and which concludes that the true sign of fatigue is diminished output. 
