Word: work
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Johannesburg, rumor spread that the pass system would be extended to black women. When a native speaker excitedly called for a strike, smoldering racial resentment burst into flame. Before dawn, picket lines armed with clubs gathered at the location gate, threatening to maul any black who went to work...
Partly Moral, Partly Selfish. The Marquot workers live in pleasant cottages for which they pay the company a nominal rent, work in spotlessly clean factory buildings. There are hot and cold showers (available to wives & children on Saturday), a hospital, a library. Gustave Marquot, who inherited the 90-year-old family business last year, is a fairly typical member of Le Centre des Jeunes Patrons (Center of Young Employers), which is trying to build a brighter future for free enterprise in France. The Young Employers are against the predatory capitalism of the past, but they also want to keep France...
Their official statement of policy says: "The Young Employers reject all notion of privilege, class or caste . . . They do not consider militant unionists as enemies . . . The right of the man who will and can work to obtain by his labor the means to support himself and his family is absolute . . . The idea cannot be to give all men the same start, because nature has given them unequal physical, moral and intellectual gifts . . . The real ideal is to give everyone a chance . . . The real goal to pursue is that . . . all workers should have the opportunity of becoming capitalists . . . An atmosphere must...
...himself un capitaliste éclairé (an enlightened capitalist). He has set up a profit-sharing plan, health insurance, a pension fund. To combat absenteeism, Marquot has instituted an "assiduity bonus"-each worker gets 150 francs for each two-week period in which he has not been absent from work. There is no union at Marquot's. About 100 of his 400 workers once belonged to the Communist-dominated C.G.T., but the union fell apart six months ago when the secretary found himself unable to collect dues. Workers' gripes are now handled by an employee-management council. There...
...shoot Gone to Earth's climactic scenes. They found a new and unexpected chill in the Shropshire air: there was not a Master of Foxhounds in sight who would lend a pack of hounds to them. They tried farther afield, but the Sports Society had done its work well. "We gave no orders to any M.F.H.," explained its Assistant Secretary Michael Shephard. "We simply advised them that in the opinion of the B.F.S.S. it was inadvisable to cooperate in the making of this film." Dejected, the moviemakers returned to London. "We hope that somewhere," wrote Messrs. Powell and Pressburger...