ABSTRACT
The Health of Munition Workers Committee reported that "of all the varied influences affecting the health and efficiency of munition workers, the Committee have found that of incentives to work the most intricate and difficult to investigate. Nevertheless, the subject is of such immediate importance as to demand consideration". It is necessary, therefore, briefly to consider the different wage systems most commonly in force from the point of view of the different psychological effects which they have on the workers. The question of the "Restriction of Output" must be considered more closely, and since it is more consciously practised in highly organised industries by employers than by the workers it must be considered from the wider viewpoint as well as in its bearings on the question of wages. A healthy environment is the first essential to success-to get a healthy populace to whom a wage system may appeal as an incentive to work.
