absentee-control

Updated: June 17, 2025

With all this duplication on the one hand, and absentee-control on the other, Main Street was a street of underlings clerks and salespeople and delivery men. That condition produced low wages and inefficient methods, many of the workers being too young to be out of school and too dense to show any intelligence about the work they were supposed to do.

Dan B. Brummitt - John Wesley, Jr.: The Story of an Experiment