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The Rationalisation of Work in French Industry in the 1930s. The economic crisis brought problems concerning sales and cost prices to the top of the list of industrialists' worries. But, nevertheless, the rationalization of production was not shelved. On the contrary, it was integrated into the System of business management thanks to the introduction of new methods. This crisis rationalization, however, had detrimental effects on personnel, seen in workshops in the form of growing responsibility concerning results, but a loss of power over methods. It led to increasing returns, while ignoring workers' interests. Salary scales were used as sanctions instead of incentives. The tension in social relations thus gave rise to strikes in mining a...
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