Modern Apprenticeships and Shop Training Methods

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Excerpt from Modern Apprenticeships and Shop Training Methods: A Review of the Methods Used in a Number of American Machine-Building Plants in the Training of Apprentices and Machine Operators With a View to Providing for the Future Needs of the Industries for Skilled Mechanics, Foremen, and SuperintendentsFor years American manufacturers have been so 'busy increasing plant facilities, devising more efficient means of production, and designing and building new machinery and tools that but little attention has been given to the training of all-around mechanics, fitting them to become the future mechanical leaders in the machine-building industries. The old-fashioned type of apprenticeship has broken down, and few manufacturers have provided anything to take its place. Recently, however, there has been a general recog nition of the fact that the future supremacy of American machine-building industries depends upon the systematic and careful training of the men who are to become the skilled machinists, foremen, and superintendents of ma chine shops ten, twenty and thirty years hence.The need of apprenticeships in American manufacturing plants is evidenced by the great scarcity of skilled mechan ics and properly trained machinists. Machine operators and specialists have taken their places, but men of general experience are also required. Conditions during the war, and perhaps even more so since the war, have made it ap parent that the supply of skilled mechanics is limited and that While machine operators can be easily obtained, the all around machinist and tool-maker is becoming more and more scarce. The only way in which this condition can be improved and the future of the machine industries made secure is by systematic and careful training of young men in specified training courses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.