Men At Work The Supervisor and His People
(Chicago): Cloud, Inc., (1947). Francis Strobel. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 191. Author's Note. Foreword. Illustrated throughout with line drawings. Bound in yellow cloth with black lettering on front board and spine. Corners lightly bumped. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows slight edge-wear, notably at head and tail of spine. Please see photos. Near Fine / Very Good+. Item #6134 The line drawings by Francis Strobel are good, but it's the dust jacket that stands out: a social-realist depiction of a manly worker at lathe. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
A guide to factory management presented in the form of a novel, sponsored by the Cornell-Caterpillar program to improve factory efficiency. The protagonist, JOE (the publisher uses repeated capitalization in the foreword), is the everyman factory-floor supervisor. Follow his model and workers will be pleased as punch.
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