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100 1 _aUnited States. Council of National Defense. Committee on Labor. Section on Industrial Training for the War Emergency
245 1 0 _aHow the shortage of skilled mechanics is being overcome by training the unskilled
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2023
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2023-07-05
508 _aBob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"How the Shortage of Skilled Mechanics is Being Overcome by Training the Unskilled" is a publication focused on industrial training during World War I, released in the early 20th century. The work is organized by the Council of National Defense and highlights efforts and policies aimed at addressing a significant labor shortage in skilled mechanics to meet wartime production needs. The likely topic of the book is the structured approach to training unskilled workers effectively and efficiently, emphasizing the collaboration between labor, employers, and educators to maintain production demands. The opening of the publication sets the stage for discussing the urgent labor shortage of skilled workers, which was exacerbated by wartime industry demands. It highlights training programs initiated by various factories, showcasing how they were adapting their workforce through rapid, intensive training methods rather than traditional apprenticeship. Different committees, representing labor, employers, and educational institutions, collaborated to establish training departments where unskilled workers could quickly learn specific tasks relevant to wartime productions, ensuring a skilled workforce could be ramped up to meet urgent national needs. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: Department of Labor, 1918
653 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects -- United States
653 _aTechnical education -- United States
653 _aMechanics (Persons)
653 _aUnskilled labor -- United States
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/howshortageofski00unit/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71125
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