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Word: makework (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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...more in pay for a shorter week. The union has also flatly refused to yield its time-dishonored right to set bogus type, a featherbedding practice that involves hand-composing, and then throwing away unused, all advertisements received in mat form. With appropriate contempt, the publishers call this makework "dead horse." The I.T.U. has also rejected a publishers' request to compose stock tables automatically from perforated tape, at a substantial saving in labor cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Common Ground | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

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