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Make-Work & Unwork. As it happens, the corollary of "job security" is all too often featherbedding, make-work and unwork. In the nation's $80 billion construction industry, some painters will not use spray guns, some carpenters will not use certain power tools, others do not permit ladders to be brought to a job (they must be hammered together on the site). Railroad diesel locomotives still carry a useless "fireman." Says an International Harvester engineer in Milwaukee: "If you want to repair a machine, an electrician has to come and shut off the switch, a millwright loosens the nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Hard Times | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

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