Posted by Bret4207 on April 16, 2014 at 04:51:37 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: Union Workers posted by jdemaris on April 15, 2014 at 10:38:09:
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You have to look at the other side of that example too. The reason Ford was paying them like that was because he couldn't get anyone to stand in one spot doing piecework for the wages he was paying. Productivity went up when he paid them more. They would sacrifice their boredom for the money. You also have to remember that with the job came Fords micro-managing and social engineering of your life, your family, your habits. And then there's the "other" other side where Ford was using thugs to beat union organizers and union sympathizers.
Ford wasn't not the altruistic saint that he's painted to be.
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