CHAPTER XIV. Possible Remedies—Profit Sharing

POSSIBLE REMEDIES—PROFIT SHARING

Industrial disadvantages of domestic service 235 Industrial difficulties in other occupations still unsettled 236 Possible relief through profit sharing 236 Definition of profit sharing 236 History of profit sharing 237 Advantages of profit sharing in other occupations 237 Lessons to be learned from profit sharing 240 Domestic service wealth consuming rather than wealth producing 240 The wage system not satisfactory in the occupation 241 Application of the principle of profit sharing to the household 242 Advantages of the plan in the household 244 Its advantages in hotels, restaurants, and railroad service 244 Substitution of profit sharing for fees 244 Objections to profit sharing in the household 245 These objections do not hold 246 Experiments in profit sharing in the household 248