ABSTRACT
Systematizers are apt to ignore the shop foreman in working out their plans. His position in the new order of things—intensive production—has never been accurately pointed out. Mr. Church shows that he should not be a specialist but a man with a wide view of all the conditions in his department and constantly watching the broad results. The abolition of the foreman may be briefly considered—and dismissed. There is nothing fundamentally impossible is doing this. It is obviously a matter of subdividing his remaining duties among others, as many of his old-time duties have been assigned to others. These remarks of an advanced and progressive manager go far to indorse of the author's own view, namely, that so far from the introduction of scientific methods tending is improve the foreman out of existence, his qualifications, on the contrary, will send to rise, notwithstanding that his active duties are less extensive and less varied.
