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He lined the four of them up and, while the whole room looked on with amused interest, he told them what was what. After that they stayed till 12. Another time a piece-rate girl allowed herself to be overpaid two dollars and said nothing about it. Hap called her into the office. “Didn't you get too much in your envelope this week?” “I dunno. I 'ain't figured up yet.”
Since I had to kick twice for every cone top finished, that would have meant around one dollar fifteen cents for the day. Vanished the piece-rate enthusiasm. Tillie seemed the only girl on our floor doing piecework. Tillie, who “was born there.” She was thin and stoop shouldered, wore spectacles, and did her hair according to the pompadour styles of some twenty years ago. The work ain't so bad.
This resulted, some three years later, in the starting of the type of management which is described in papers presented to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers entitled "A Piece-Rate System" and "Shop Management."
The elaborate system of piece-rate lists which has been evolved in the Lancashire cotton industry is primarily designed to secure the same wage for workers of equal efficiency in all mills, irrespective of the degree to which the machinery is antiquated or up to date.
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