Bedaux system
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Bedaux system
After Charles Eugène Bedaux (1887–1944), American industrialist
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Arriving in the U.S. in 1906, French-born Bedaux washed dishes, worked as a sand hog, finally evolved the Bedaux system of workmen's pay based on units of production.
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It did not involve Windsor except through Bedaux's attempts to convert the former British king, among others, to a new Bedaux system of "economic and social appeasement."
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Charles Eugene Bedaux, 56, wily industrial engineer; of a self-administered overdose of sleeping powders; in Miami, Fla. Dark, affable, French-born Bedaux came to the U.S. in 1906 as a laborer, in 1915 evolved the Bedaux System which purported to reward workers amply in proportion to work done, but which was widely denounced as exploitation.
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Apart from its appeasement of labor, the Bedaux system is basically the same.
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