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speeding-up (system)
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any condition or situation tending to increase production through increased labor output; also, a point or bonus system, as the Bedaux system, designed to achieve this end.
Quotations
1919
Fellow-Workers. Let us abolish the speeding-up system as speedily as possible.
1930
More and more workers are thrown out of industry as a result of the terrific speed-up system that the dress-makers are faced with.
1932
The question of the united front tactics in mobolizing [sic] the lumber and sawmill workers in struggle against wage cuts, speed up, for increase in pay was thoroughly discussed.
1957
The "speed-up," so bitterly complained of by unions in Canada and the United States, is the normal state of affairs in Russia.