Excerpt from Labour Supply and Regulation The labour problem for a State compelled to throw the whole of its resources into the conduct of a war is, in the phrase that gained currency during the late war, the problem of man-power. The effort that can be exerted by any State is automatically restricted or extended first by the numbers of men and women available either for the services in the field or at home, and secondly by the use, ordered or disorderly, that is made of those services. Apart, therefore, from the skill of commanders by land or sea, the diplomatic resources of statesmen, the valour and resolution of the Forces, there is no single factor in a modern war which contributes so much to defeat or victory as the failure or success in handling the man-power problem, which, if the war is prolonged, is ultimately the problem of making one man or woman do the work of one and a quarter or even of one and a half. The State must dispose its man-power so as to serve all the four following needs simultaneously and as fully as possible. 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.