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1 Jan 1949

• • • 49 PRODUCTIVITY CAMPAIGN 1949 Productivity pays and how.. IF 8,000 WORKERS produced 4,000 tons of aluminium sheet per month at the peak of war effort how much will 5,000 workers produce per month in 1948? You'd be surprised ... Arithmetic gives the answer to this sum as 2,500 tons. Productivity gives 4,000 tons. That is the experience of a South Wales firm making aluminium sheet. Since 1946 it has re-organised its production process and has developed still further a bonus scheme already in existence with the following results: Output has risen from 111/4 to 16 cwts.
infrastructure aluminium cost of living employment industrial production industry labour supply metals wages post-war planning
Collection ID
HATOM
Document Reference
HATOM/3/222
Document Types
Ephemera
File Reference
HATOM/3
Identifier
10.1080/wtss.hatom.000003.222
Keywords
Aluminium Employment Industrial Production Industry Labour Supply Metals Wages
Language
English
Note
Advert located on right-hand side of page. In the case of the advertising collections, the Government Department War Cabinet" has also been applied to materials released under the imprint of "HM Government" during the period 1945-1951."
Pages
1
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
History of Advertising Trust: O&M wartime book no 3
Themes
Industry Infrastructure Post-war Planning Wages Cost of Living

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