Chapter XIV: 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