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shop floor
[f. shop n. + floor n.1]
1. The floor of a workshop or factory, where the operatives work; the part of a factory or workshop concerned with productive as opp. to administrative work. Freq. (with hyphen) attrib. Also in phr. on the shop floor.
1951E. Jacques Changing Culture of Factory iii. xii. 316 The workers' representatives..were regarded as a more reliable source of information about shop floor matters. 1956Nature 18 Feb. 300/2 It is difficult to see how, in a Handbook of this kind, the real challenge and opportunity which shop-floor industry presents could be presented. 1962B.S.I. News Apr. 17/2 Polymethyl⁓methacrylate might be understood by a chemist but ‘Perspex’ (a trade name) would be understood at shop⁓floor level. 1962Listener 12 July 44/2 The lack of participation on the shop floor may be one of the underlying causes of malaise. 1967C. Margerison in Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Management Technol. 31 The worker on the shop floor does not tend to identify himself either with the values or the goals of the manager. 1970Guardian 11 July 11/6 The unanimous decision of a dockers' delegate conference—shop floor democracy at its most democratic. 1977M. Walker National Front vi. 156 The new trade union policy did not focus solely on the exploitation of racialism on the shop floor.
2. By extension, the workers on the shop floor considered collect.
1958Listener 30 Oct. 680/2 A dispute between management and shop floor about the number of men to be employed upon a machine. 1977Times 20 Apr. 4/7 They have decided to cancel... The shop floor is upset about it. |