Word: productivityâ
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...inherent contradiction is that the American worker's dream remains what it always has been: in modern terms, a house in the suburbs and two cars in the breezeway. Yet he is no longer willing to pay the traditional price of increased productivity???or, perhaps more accurately, unable to endure any more speedups. His contradictory yearnings were expressed by one striking G.M. worker in Tarrytown: "What I hope is, by the time my kids grow up, this plant will be automated. They'll sit here in business suits, looking at a panel of instruments, and they will be called technicians...
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