Excerpt from Course in Modern Production Methods The raw material out of which products are made is merely lifeless matter. Both plant and material are useless without the organizing touch and the Cooperative labor of that third element, men - the men who supervise the business, and the great rank and file of those who carry out the plans of the management. The underlying principle bf it all is cooperation -the teamwork of managers with workmen, of workmen with one another, and of all with the tools which aid production and the materials which enter into production. 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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.