Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation is in a sense a reflection of the national job shortage; for there are many students who could not earn the money during the summer they had expected to, and who today are more than ever in need of work. Cornell takes pride, and justly, in the number of her students who work their way through college. But the present outlook is none too cheerful for these students...
...estimate the amount of time devoted to the handling and selling of the articles in each department. To make these estimates is a far more hazardous undertaking than cost accounting in a factory, where ordinarily it is possible to keep an exact record of the time spent on each job. This cost accounting may be thoroughly worth while in individual wholesale grocery businesses. I am by no means sure, however, that the trade generally is prepared to install the detailed records that would be necessary to secure practical results. Personally I should not be interested in going any further with...
...arose over the individual piece prices, employees contending that it was impossible to earn the basic rate agreed upon with the prices set on certain operations and foremen contending that certain other prices allowed the basic rate to be earned too easily, which tended to laying down on the job and consequent loss of production. Here again, the application of the plan was brought out and continues to the present to be a very satisfactory medium for obtaining justice for both sides...
...department, the representative acting as a sort of buffer, showing a desire to have the work done in the quickest method and on machines that were suitable for it. We've always made them that way,' is now seldom offered as an alibi, under the close analysis given the job by the combined efforts of this cooperation...
...Another time-worn argument of the foreman used to be when a man protested a price that 'it covered the man who did the job previously for that price and who made good money on it,' which was true. But we found at the time the representative entered on the scene, that there was another factor which had often been overlooked, namely, the type of machine that the price had been set on. It might have been a lathe job and timed on a certain lathe and the operator who was protesting against the price was doing the job...