Word: pieceworkers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...months he expects to be in limited production in a rented Trieste factory, thinks that output will eventually hit 3,600 pairs a day of women's cheap ($4 to $6) novelty shoes. If all goes well, the Trieste Shoe Co. will employ 400 people, and let out piecework to some 2,000 others. Most of the production will go to the U.S. market. "It's a Utopian situation," says Albert Saitz, with a happy glow. "The natives are happy, Italy gets dollars, and we get a chance to make a profit." And Saitz's in-laws...
...second only to babies as human-interest stories, sent a reporter down to the pound. What he turned up shocked Newsday's 116,000 readers. Dogcatcher Roeper, Newsday reported, gets paid $2 for each dog he catches and $2 more for each one he kills. With this piecework incentive, Roeper had killed 4,158 dogs in Hempstead township (96.8% of those he has caught), and earned more than $16,000 in twelve months...