Japan means Karoshi What is Karoshi ? Karoshi sudden death due to overwork. * Workers have suddenly died on the shopfloor, seemingly healthy and robust. The flexible production technique has contributed a new word to the Japanese dictionary i.e. Karoshi : sudden death due to overwork. * Whip-yielding master on horse-back managed to make serf and peasant work three to four days a week and three to six months a year. * In the Fordist assembly line the labour process was designed to occupy the workers 45 seconds in every minute. In the flexible production plant, workers are occupied 57 seconds in every minute. * Workers on Toyotas assembly line in Japan and England make 20 movements every 18 seconds. * The numbers given above imply that a lack of application and insufficient concentration for even a fraction of a second is being eradicated. This results in a level of stress that imperils both physical and psychological health.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:38:41 +0000
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