Stakhanovism

Stakhanovism
/steuh kah"neuh viz'euhm, stah hah"no-/, n.
a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
[1935-40; STAKHANOV(ITE) + -ISM]

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