Excerpt from Stabilizing Industrial Employment, Vol. 71: Reducing the Labor Turnover; The Annals; May, 1917 The centralized employment department is the natural suc cessor in the evolution of business from the methods which have been common in business since industry first began to assume its large importance in the world's afiairs. In the very beginning labor-saving machinery came in. Somebody invented the loom and set it Up in an English kitchen. Then someone figured that, if power could be found, a further advance in production would be made that would enormously increase economic wealth. At this point the centralization of labor-saving machinery became neces sary, in order that the sources of power might be accessible. Thus we came to the factory. The first application of power to machin ery was the water power; then came the invention of steam and a whole world of possibilities was opened up for the development of the factory system. The first factories were barns and sheds and old houses. Then someone, considerably later, decided that the machinery could be set up to greater advantage in a special build ing. So production came to the understanding of the importance of factory construction, from which time the study and develop ment of this has been constant. 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.