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...must grow more than his family eats in order to have something to sell, so must the factory worker turn out more value every hour than his hourly wage amounts to. The solution to the problems of rising costs and falling productivity is to put everyone back on either piecework or commission. This will eliminate featherbedding, slowdowns, etc., and at the same time raise our productivity nationwide...
Auto service is a mess largely because of abuses in the system by which repair shops calculate labor costs. Under the prevailing piecework system, mechanics are paid a set rate for each job rather than an hourly wage. To figure the labor charge, garages rely on "flat-rate" manuals that specify how much time each job should take. Although automakers publish their own flat-rate manuals, many garages prefer to use independent books that list longer work times-and thus higher charges-for each job. Whatever the manual, the cost of labor ordinarily is figured at $7.50 an hour, which...
Working conditions are no better. The major sources of jobs are restaurants, curio stores and the sewing shops, comprising 151 small, family-oriented contract clothing factories employing about 20 seamstresses apiece. Paid on a piecework basis, the women often labor from 8:30 a.m. until after midnight, seven days a week, fingers darting frenetically to make ends meet. Asked why she would work at least twelve hours a day for a net income of $26 a week, one mother of five said succinctly: "You have to in Chinatown...
...Industrial Revolution put an end to the need for home manufacture. The Hanoverian kings of England had placed strict embargoes and taxes on the use of fine fabrics, such as cotton prints from Calcutta, in the colonies. So women hoarded snippets and swatches left over from dressmaking for the piecework of quilts. By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern. As shown in an exhibit of historic counterpanes at New Jersey's Newark Museum (see opposite page), the very nature...
...earth below 100 feet of granite to withstand bombing. The company has been ably directed for the past 15 years by President Tryggve Holm, 60, a modest, slide-rule-toting engineer. Holm insists on creativity in design, quality and efficiency in production, has instituted an incentive piecework plan that spurs employees on to faster work. Another Holm plan ensures that quality does not suffer from speed: Saab factories swarm with inspectors, one for every 16 workers...