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- Title
THE TWELVE-HOUR SHIFT IN THE PETROLEUM AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES.
- Authors
Northrup, Herbert R.; Wilson, James T.; Rose, Karen M.
- Abstract
The article describes how the twelve-hour shift in the petroleum and chemical industries developed based on interviews with managers in fifty plants in the U.S. and Canada in 1977. It is found that twelve-hour shift is not a total solution to the problems of working shifts but as long as operations run continuously, no schedule will be able to remove the undesirability of late-shift and weekend work entirely. The significance of the modified schedule depends on its provision for fewer interruptions to the normal functioning of the workers' private lives. Success of such schedules depends on the willingness of management and workers to innovate together for their mutual good.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CANADA; SHIFT systems; WORKING hours; PRODUCTION scheduling; LABOR time; EXECUTIVES; INDUSTRIAL management; FACTORIES
- Publication
ILR Review, 1979, Vol 32, Issue 3, p312
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001979397903200302