The international library of sociology and social reconstruction Mayo, Elton creator text xxu London Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1949 monographic eng

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"If our social skills had advanced step by step with our technical skills there would not have been another war" This is the challenging theme of this book. Prof. Mayo, having defined social skill as being "our ability to secure co-operation between people" concludes: "Effective co-operation is the problem we face in the middle period of the twentieth century. There is no "ism" that will help us to solution. We must be content to return to patient pedestrian work, at the wholly neglected problem of the determinants of spontaneous participation. Index: p141-148 Sociology Industrialisation 306.36 MAY 140722 20151023231935.0