ABSTRACT
The human being is looked upon as a motor to which chemical energy is supplied, which is restored to the world in the form of mechanical labour and heat. Hence the idea of submitting the working of the bodily organs to experimental tests with a view to discover their best working conditions, to detect fatigue, and to lay down a scientific basis for industrial work. Industrial evolution gives an ever-increasing importance to the psychic factor in the artisan’s work, says Omer Buyse, formerly director of the Universite de Travail at Charleroi, director of that at Brussels. An important constituent element in industrial intelligence is voluntary attention and concentration. Apprenticeship to industries is carried out on the experimental method. The problem of labour could never have been solved had it not been for the entry of physiology and psychology into its domain. The chapter examines the accumulation of fatigue by means of short rests between the ergographic curves.
