"Stretch-out" was a term applied by textile mill workers when
additional production quotas were applied by their supervisors
after a previous quota had been met. The workers were pressured
to increase production with little or no further incentive.
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and others, Like a Family: The Making of a
Southern Cotton Mill World (1987). Like and Family, Work and
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