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The pay roll books of the McCormick works in Chicago show us the fact that, through the later part of the nineteenth century, the production of the reaping machine has been done with a kind of seasonal rhythm reached the peak in June. The peak was then followed by the sharp decline in employment which was practiced through a layoff, especilly, of the unskilled workers.
Although this came from the historical fact that the reaper production was linked with the harvest season of the crops such as winter wheat, a layoff was, eventually, institutionalized in the industry.
This paper intends to throw some lights on the labor management and examine the entrepreneurial significance of the layoff system on the growth of the enterprise.
