The working-class ' aristocracy ' and foremen were, however, paid on a weekly or monthly basis.
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Similarly, though foremen and technicians exercise some control over their colleagues, they are in turn subject to control by managers.
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She attributes this to prejudice, which was allowed to operate because of the relative autonomy afforded to factory managers and foremen.
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Migrants with longer experience and better language skills helped newcomers in their dealings with foremen, employers, doctors and the police.
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The largest reductions occur among foremen (down from 1.57 to 1.03) and working class (down from 1.41 to 0.76).
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Mtisi shows that while the rights of workers have improved since independence, the continuing arbitrary power of the estate's foremen has meant that little has changed in the production process.
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Before them, and profiting from their work, were the foremen, the campsite chiefs, the permisionarios (national contractors), the international contractors, and the chewing gum brokers working for transnational companies.
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Now contractors used foremen who stressed worker productivity rather than craftsmen's former, more self-directed concern for the quality of their work environment, but otherwise change was moderate.
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I have seen strange requests carried out by workers at the behest of their foremen and supervisors.
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I know of a case which recently occurred, in which a man desired to take a foreman's place.
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The award does not apply to principal foremen or foremen, nor to temporary employés, who are dealt with separately.
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The tremendous competition of other forms of industry in the motor world makes it extremely difficult for garages to get competent foremen and adequate staff.
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He spoke of eight men of whom it was said that they were kept there because they were relatives of foremen.
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Contractors' agents, safety supervisors, foremen and apprentices, can all benefit from safety training geared to their particular requirements.
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The effort has got to be quickened, tightened; employers, managers, foremen, workmen, must put their backs into it, to save the country.
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