ABSTRACT
DEFICIENT output implies to the piece worker a loss of wages, to the time worker possible discharge ; and it is often bewailed by business men as nothing short of a national calamity.
Vernon (26), quoting Lord Leverhulme, tabulates the " value of goods produced by each worker " in 1886, 1906 and 1912 in the United Kingdom, the United States and certain British Dominions, much to the disparagement of the Mother Country. Fortunately for her these figures are of very doubtful authenticity. The only year for which anything certain is known of English productivity is the year 1907, when the first, and as yet, the last Census of Production was taken, and the higher output per head given for earlier years must have been calculated on an altogether different basis.
