| 释义 |
speed-up
[f. vbl. phr. to speed up: see speed v. 11 d.]
a. The act or process of increasing the speed or working rate of a thing. Also attrib.
1923Daily Mail 3 Mar. 7 Train Speed-up..The speeding up of all services. 1944Sun (Baltimore) 18 May 18/6 (heading) Assembly speedup law is planned. 1953J. S. Huxley Evolution in Action i. 33 With a hundred-thousand-fold speed-up [of film]..the overall processes of evolution became visible. 1970R. Lowell Notebook 158, I too in the end will see the things like this, Whatever I've lived assumed in one bright glance Like speed-up reading. 1977P. Somerville-Large Eagles near Carcase v. 102 ‘Go on,’ I said, ‘not too fast.’.. The last thing I wanted was a speed-up.
b. The act or process of increasing productivity, esp. without raising rates of pay. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1935Sun (Baltimore) 9 Feb. 2/1 Labor unrest..flows from..inequitable hiring and rehiring methods, espionage, speed-up and displacement of workers at an extremely early age. 1938Reader's Digest May 55/2 There is no piecework, no speedup. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 14 June 10/7 The extreme manifestation of management is the ruthless speedup or stretch-out, where production is increased without thought of the health of the working⁓man. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 184 The productive speed-up tends to be replaced by..‘feather-bedding’. 1962E. Snow Other Side of River xxxi. 235 In 1955, for example, the Workers Daily revealed that alleged gains made in ‘speed-up’ drives by shocking over-use of labor were more than offset by heavily increased losses in man-power output. 1974Time Out 22 Nov. 64/3 It's a depressing and probably accurate picture of a failure of consciousness in a barely unionised community where speed-ups, piece-work and cheap labour are rife. |