interruption of work between different contracts or bet-

ween defferent parts of a particular contract; major

remedies were:

(a) the establishment of that positive co-operation that
is possible when no basic conflict of interest exists
between workers and ‘management workers’;

(b)- detailed forward planning by all those who require
building or construction work so as to establish a
programme of work extending over more than a
year;

(c) the termination of the system of tendering and, with
MECCO, beginning to work with a cost control
system and with open books;

(d) a further simplification and standardisation of
designs and integration of design and construction;

(e) an attempt to assure the industry of requisite access
to national transportation facilities;

(f) the establishment of equipment pools, making idle
government equipment of one section available to
another;

(g) the institution of efficient production management
and work-flow techniques to ensure full utilisation
of resources (assisted by a flexible labour force);

(ix) technological dislocation:

caused by introduction of new machinery or techniques;

major remedies were:

(a) the phasing of such changes so that in a growing in-
dustry redundancy can be avoided and a heavy em-
phasis on locally produced and developed machinery
so that net employment effects are more likely to be
positive;

(x) seasonal stoppages:

referring in Tanzania to the rainy seasons; remedies were

much like remedies for weather induced intermittent

stoppages — ie:

(a) a flexible labour force;

(b) the development of techniques which, though
slightly higher cost, will allow operations to con-
tinue except under very severe conditions;

() the planning of work so that large amounts of

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