Excerpt from The Psychology of Industry This little book is intended not so much for the student of psychology as for the ordinary man. It is true it has been written partly with the purpose of meeting the needs of W.E.A. classes and courses for social study, such as the classes the writer has himself had experience of teaching in Edinburgh. But, while the needs of such readers have been kept in view throughout, an attempt has also been made to present the matter in a way that would interest and assist the intelligent man in the street who desires to know something of what has been done by the psychologist in this new field. Much psychological activity has been recently manifested in this field of industry and commerce, and it has indeed become imperative that the results should be known to a wider public. That may be taken as the main object of the present work.

There are several books in existence, especially by American writers, which profess the same object. Nevertheless there seems to be room for a book adhering more to the psychological point of view, and emphasizing principles rather than details of results to a greater extent than most of the existing books. In the works of the scientific-management engineers, while there is much lip service to psychology, the psychology itself is with difficulty recognizable by the professed psychologist. Even in the works of psychologists there is a marked tendency to stress results, and to overlay the discussion with so many illustrations drawn from practical life, that the general lines of the underlying psychology are apt to be obscured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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