ABSTRACT
The degree of success attainable by the two-shift system can be estimated properly only after it has been in continuous operation for a year or more on a fairly considerable scale. This chapter describes some of the larger factories where a fairly considerable proportion of the women have been working continuously on the system for a year or more. It then refers, more briefly, a number of industries and occupations where it is running continuously on a small scale. The chapter shows that in many factories, both large and small, it is run intermittently owing to seasonal requirements, or temporarily owing to some of the causes. The industry in which the two-shift system has been most fully developed is that relating to the manufacture of artificial silk and its products. The metal and engineering industries probably employ the next largest number of shift-workers.
