Excerpt from The Twelve-Hour Shift in Industry Shortly after this meeting an investigation was conducted to determine the progress made in the steel industry in changing from the two-shift day. This investigation was directed by Morris L. Cooke. The study was made possible by a grant from the Cabot Fund, and the field work was done by Horace B. Drury. In Mr. Drury's report, made at a joint meeting of engineering societies held in New York in December, there were listed about twenty steel plants, some large but many of them small, which had changed from the two-shift to the three-shift system with more or less suc cess. It was recognized and stated that the problem of work ing a like change in the plants of the U. S. Steel Corporation and the large independents, such as Jones Laughlin and the Bethlehem Steel Company, was quite different from that encountered in the smaller plants. 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.