cannery Maksud & Definisi

Contoh cannery

• Replacing them on the cannery line were women and boys aged 12-15, who had lower qualifications but who also received lower pay.

• A law of 1939 slightly improved the situation of cannery women.

• The tendency to employ women in fish canneries grew throughout the first third of twentieth century.

• The new potential element is price and revenue sharing when the ex-vessel price for cannery-grade skipjack tuna rises above an agreed-upon floor level.

• Although in certain sections of the cannery, such as the kitchen, men and women worked together, women earned 40 per cent less than men.

• Although the women employed in the canneries performed many tasks, they had poorer contracts, worse working conditions and received lower wages than men.

• This way of allocating work in the 1920s, which was entirely at the discretion of the cannery, is confirmed by interviews with older workers from the factory.

• Workers who wanted promotion to masters had to complete their studies with specific training in processing, canning and accounting and needed five years' experience of cannery work.