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CHARLES EUGENE BEDAUX was a real bosses’ man. He was a French-American millionaire who made his fortune developing and implementing work study — ways of measuring just how hard workers were working in order to pay them less. His method used a stopwatch and clipboard.
His was one of the very first of these systems and became famous and popular among greedy big bosses and notorious and hated by workers and their trade unions. His was known as the Bedaux system or sometimes simply the “B system.”
His early work record was far from respectable. At 14 he was working as a pimp around the brothels in the Pigalle region in Paris. We will never know if it was here he first used clipboard and stopwatch to see if the customers were getting value for money.
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