The science of labour and its organization / by Josefa Ioteyko.

  • Ioteyko, Josefa, 1866-1928.
Date:
1919
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    competitions having for their object the stimula¬ tion of the workman in his endeavours to attain self-improvement. In this manner in the course of a year, the University of Labour has organised competitions between typographers, tailors, plum¬ bers, masons, plasterers, and bakers. To sum up the University of Labour, based upon the principles of American methods of technical education, brought over from the United States by Omer Buyse, renders the greatest service to the industrial province of Hainaut. Opened in 1903 with 152 pupils it has collected together a permanent population of nearly 2,000 scholars. The pupils trained in these schools have materially contributed to the improvement of the technical methods of factories and workshops. 3.—BELGIAN INITIATIVE IN THE INDUSTRIAL RE-EDUCATION OF THOSE MAIMED IN THE WAR, IN FRANCE. In this triumph of applied science, the Province of Hainaut has not forgotten the unfortunate victims of accidents incurred in the prosecution of their work ; it has dreamed of re-constructing