Bedaux system

[ buh-doh ]

noun

1. a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bedaux system¹

After Charles Eugène Bedaux (1887–1944), American industrialist

Example Sentences

Arriving in the U.S. in 1906, French-born Bedaux washed dishes, worked as a sand hog, finally evolved the Bedaux system of workmen's pay based on units of production.

From Time Magazine Archive

It did not involve Windsor except through Bedaux's attempts to convert the former British king, among others, to a new Bedaux system of "economic and social appeasement."

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles Eugene Bedaux, 56, wily industrial engineer; of a self-administered overdose of sleeping powders; in Miami, Fla. Dark, affable, French-born Bedaux came to the U.S. in 1906 as a laborer, in 1915 evolved the Bedaux System which purported to reward workers amply in proportion to work done, but which was widely denounced as exploitation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apart from its appeasement of labor, the Bedaux system is basically the same.

From Time Magazine Archive