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...buses and trucks that take them to work in Israel. There they earn up to $17 a day in construction work and other manual-labor jobs-four or five times what they used to make in the citrus groves. So prized are the skilled Arab hands that some Jewish foremen in the nearby Israeli town of Kfar Saba pick them up in taxis to take them to work...
...could see no point in creating such "waste space" in Manhattan. Olmsted's tenacity was such that when his thigh was broken in three places by a carriage accident, he insisted on being carried round the park in a litter while he issued his orders to the foremen and struggled to complete, in grass and trees, his "gallery of mental pictures." Though he disapproved of such grand formal gardens as Versailles, the park entailed a stupendous effort of engineering. Ten million cartloads of earth and stone were dragged in and out of the area, millions of trees, vines...
...number of operations off the assembly line. Some brakes and other sub-assemblies are put together by teams of workers; each performs several operations instead of a single repetitive task. In the U.S., Chrysler has used the work team to set up a conventional engine-assembly line; two foremen were given complete freedom to design the line, hand-pick team members and use whatever tools and equipment they wanted...
...assembly line but in the factory recreation hall, with a study session on Maoist thought. Working conditions are adequate: safety regulations spell out the proper procedures for operating machinery, for instance, but set down few guidelines for personal safety. Factories pay compensation, however, for job-caused injuries or death. Foremen tend to be chosen mainly for their job expertise, though political correctness remains important too, and the ablest serve on the factory's all-powerful revolutionary committee. Even large Western-style factories with assembly lines are not air-conditioned or heated; workers sweat in hot weather, shiver...
...workers put in six eight-hour days a week. When Mitsubishi took over the San Angelo plant of a U.S. subcontractor in 1969. its executives made it plain that they would not expect the employees to adopt Japanese habits. They have contented themselves with the work pace that American foremen can get out of 100 Texans who put in conventional 40-hour weeks...