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The Last American Shoe Manufacturers : Changing the Method of Pay to Survive Foreign Competition

Freeman, Richard B. - 1998

During the last 150 years, shoe manufacturing in the U.S. has gone from one of the largest employers in manufacturing to one of the smallest, yet some firms have survived and remained profitable. This study examines the role of changing methods of compensation in shoe manufacturing, in a sector...

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The Last American Shoe Manufacturers : Decreasing Productivity and Increasing Profits in the Shift from Piece Rates to Continuous Flow Production

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This study examines the economic effects of changes in a group of managerial policies, a key element of which was the switch from piece rate to time rate modes of compensation, in one of the last remaining firms in the U.S. shoe industry in the 1990s. The firm, which we call 'Big Foot' (BF),...

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