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Description: | Unmarried women had worked in the packaging departments from the mid-nineteenth century. The number of women employees steadily increased and during the First World War women were employed for the first time by the engineering and manufacturing departments to replace the men who had joined the armed forces. In the 1930s girls came from areas of high unemployment like South Wales to work at Huntley & Palmers. Women received lower wages then men for similar jobs. Between 1928 and 1936 Huntley & Palmers introduced the Bedaux time and motion system across the factory and offices, following a successful trial in 1927 in the rusk packing room. The Bedaux Company approached Huntley & Palmers who took up the system to increase workers efficiency. The gist of this complicated system was that a worker was timed doing their job, with their knowledge, so that their work rate per minute was measured. That figure was a base. If the worker did more per minute than this figure then they would earn a 25% bonus. In 1932 it was estimated that the five-year cumulative net saving to Huntley & Palmers was £95,000. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | interior social history trade packaging working life advertising people biscuit | Temporal: | start=1930-01-01; end=1939-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Walton Adams and Son Ltd | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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