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...Speedup. Trouble began in mid-1971, about a year after the automated line was put into operation. Partly because the bugs had been worked out of the line and partly because the assembly plant consolidated with an adjacent Fisher Body plant, there were layoffs in what G.M. now will only say was an "8,000-plus" work force. The United Auto Workers claims that 750 or more were laid off; management contends the total was only half that. Those still on the job complained that they were being forced to speed up, do extra jobs and generally work too hard...
...gave Russian workers the speedup back in 1935 has resurfaced. Alexei Stakhanov became Stalin's original "shock worker" by producing 102 tons of coal in a six-hour shift-eleven times the norm. Soviet officials then used the high output of dedicated "Stakhanovites" as a pretext to raise production quotas for everyone. Now 66, Stakhanov told Pravda that there was too much emphasis on production statistics, "machines, automation, percentages and tons." When it came time to praise the workers, he said, he had seen party officials giving out awards while sneaking glances at their wristwatches. "Praise should...
...more doctors than in the past. Overall figures are not available, but there are some indicators. In the four decades prior to the Communist takeover, Sidel reports, First Peking Medical College had just over a thousand graduates. Since 1949, there have been more than 10,000. Despite the speedup, Sidel says, "the Chinese are the first to admit that they are still limited in manpower and resources...
...implication of all these problems is that there will have to be a speedup in the pace of economic recovery to bring about an anti-inflationary rise in productivity, rather than the other way round. Says Robert Nathan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "We need a hell of a big push on the economy through increased Government spending. This would lead to greater demand, lower unemployment, higher plant utilization and productivity, and give us a better chance to fight inflation." That is the reverse of traditional economic dogma, which holds that a rapid business expansion creates...
...move in despite the fact that the building is unfinished. The office workers must pick their way through mud and construction material to reach their still incomplete quarters. The role of the Mafia in the construction of the building-first in slowing down work, then in Cammillieri's speedup-is dismissed with studied ignorance by the contractor. Said Bateson Superintendent Paul Boyd: "Cammillieri kept Local 210 off my back. That alone was worth what we paid him. He did a job for us-but I don't know...