Word: speedup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production. It has been championed as the answer to the manpower pinch, as a shot in the arm to hop war production up as much as 30%. It has also been condemned as a backward step towards the piecework system (particularly unpopular with automotive workers), the speedup, the sweatshop...
...studies (schedules setting average time to complete operations), which actually gave some workmen so much free time that they played pinochle in washrooms. Murray got its U.A.W.-C.I.O. local to agree to new time studies by a firm of industrial engineers. To quiet union suspicions of a profit-inspired speedup, Murray did something unique in time study history: five union men were selected to take a nine-month time-study course, to help work out the new schedules...
Since last January the university has been on a speedup, year-round program without vacations, so that a standard course can be completed in two years and eight months. (Students going to war get a semester's credit for half a semester's work.) Special war activities include a new Naval R.O.T.C., with 400 members, extension courses for 3,000 adults to make aircraft workers and shipbuilders out of farmers and migrants; a course in aircraft design with classes for women; 78 new war courses, including one for comman-dettes (girl commandos). Now the university is planning...
...Russian symbol for self-imposed production speedup. Skilled Pneumatic-Drill Operator Alexei Stakhanov boosted coal output fivefold simply through better teamwork...
...Packard Local 190 (U.A.W.-C.I.O.), a unioneer who realizes that the only way to win the war is with more and faster production. In a two-month series of confabs, the two men pounded the original idea into the "Work to Win" program. Chief program points: 1) a speedup of machines rather than men; 2) individual recognition for work well done; 3) whoop...