ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the measurement of productivity, the effort made by economists. The Anglo-American Council on Productivity has sponsored well over 20 Teams who have made studies in America of American production methods, and it is hoped by free exchange of knowledge to assist British industry to raise its level of productivity. The Teams have found it difficult to furnish reliable comparisons of the productivity of industries in Britain and America, although most are prepared to state the opinion that productivity in the United States is higher than in Britain. The British Trade Union officials, who investigated the role of Unions in increasing productivity in the United States of America, found that the American Unions have sufficient evidence to show that far from being accurate. The United States output was six times that of the British, but when the costs of the product were compared it was found that the British article cost less than the American.
