Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to tackle their tasks and even who their foreman will be. In another method, the men move along the line with the cars performing each successive assembly operation. The automakers are also rotating some assembly-line workers to different jobs. An employee may attach seat headrests one day, bore holes in the seat framework the next, connect back supports and lift seat cushions onto conveyor belts on subsequent days. At Volvo, some female assembly workers even spend one day every two weeks doing office jobs...
...problem in industrial psychology has received more attention in both scholarly studies and barroom bull sessions, yet prompted less action, than the monotonous life of the assembly-line worker. Nowhere is the trouble greater than in auto plants, where repetitious, single-task jobs so bore workers that United Auto Workers Vice President Douglas Fraser often tells members that they have "half the day licked" once they have managed to get to the plant. Sweden's two biggest automakers are testing ways to make the job a bit more interesting by, in effect, disassembling portions of their lines...
Marion Johnson, 20, who had lived in foster homes since the age of 5, bore an illegitimate child at 17. A social worker tried to persuade her to give up the child, but she refused and was adjudged "wayward...
...dream, and ultimately themselves when the odds were 100 to 1 that they wouldn't make it. In part, the courage, skill, intelligence, and dignity which the Indians exhibited in their struggle arose from their understanding of the interdependence of the things for which they were fighting. Their land bore them, and they were fighting. Their land bore them, and they bore their dream, which, in turn, sustained them and held them close to their land. They fought for the survival of the continuity of survival. "Most of them, young and old, would be driven into the ground long before...
...near or adjoining hers), furnished them with her own dreadful taste, staffed them with cadres of servants. When the six children began arriving, she contested Eleanor over every matter of upbringing. Franklin Jr. once recalled: "Granny referred to us as 'my children,' adding, 'Your mother only bore...