The Road to Industrial Peace²

Abstract

FROM time to time the Advisory Council of Science and Industry in the Australian Commonwealth issues bulletins dealing with various industrial problems, and the latest of its publications is entitled “Welfare Work,” though it is wider in scope than the titlet is usually taken to imply. The preface tells us that the bulletin is prepared for the benefit of all who are seeking for some road to industrial peace and the establishment of more satisfactory and harmonious relations between capital and labour. It points out that these relations are far wider than questions of wages and hours of labour. A comprehensive industrial policy considers the responsibilities which fall on the shoulders of employers, the effect of industrial conditions on the employee, his well-being outside working hours, the distribution of the wealth produced, and the participation of the employees in the management and control of industrial operations.