Toleration by Chao Chen

Author:Chao Chen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

As Zhu mentioned, workers in the front shop were not grateful for the support of the workers from the rear . On the contrary, they were more likely to be irritated by their hard work and blame the helping workers. It was not because the moved workers took the bonus that should have had belonged to them. No matter how much extra money the moved workers earned during the month(s) in the front shops, they were working on a temporary basis and would sooner or later go back to their original workshops. In fact, what worried the front workers a lot was that their production quota was very likely to be increased in future due to the hard work of the rear workers. In every workshop, the quota setters (ding e yuan) adjusted the quota of each procedure and each component every month according to the workers’ monthly performance. If many of the moved workers were able to complete the same production quota in a much shorter time, the quota setters would think that the existing quota in fact underestimated the workers’ productiveness. Surely, large quota adjustments could not be made casually and easily, but the working records of the moved workers would certainly be an important benchmark for future quota increases. Moreover, the production quota was also rigid in nature and, once increased, would never fall back. In other words, the hard work of the moved workers could have a permanent effect on the workload of the workers in the front shops. When I asked my informant Zhu Guiqin why she did not exceed the production quota as others did, she answered:Some shifted workers’ hard work could possibly increase the production quota of the whole section they were in. It was not a big deal for us shifted workers because we only worked there for a while, but the front workers had to work there for their whole life!12

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