Historical significance of work grading

Job achievement is a specific vocabulary produced in a specific social background. The production team members' participation in productive labor during the large collective period is called "going to work", and the work score is the abbreviation of the reward score that the production team members deserve to go to work every day. At the end of the year, the production team accountant calculates the annual dividend according to the sum of employees' scores. At that time, the male labor force worked six or seven times a day, the female labor force worked four or five times, and the old, the young, the sick and the disabled generally worked once or twice. In a good harvest year, the unit price of the production team with good benefits can be worth 40 to 50 cents, and the production team with poor benefits can be worth 30 to 40 cents or even 20 to 30 cents.

Work performance is the lifeblood of members, condensing everyone's sweat and even tears. In a large group, there are as few as three or four people in a family, as many as seven or eight or even a dozen people, and they support their families by the work points earned by the production team. Children's expenses such as going to school, dressing, shopping, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are all included. At that time, most families, because they were old and young, could not solve the problem of eating by relying on the rations distributed by the production team. For the sake of work, it is common for members not to eat or even work hungry.

Work score is the product of collective evaluation of production team members. To use a popular term, the production team in a large group is like an "industrial chain". The production team leader is the "master plan" of this "industrial chain". He has to arrange different jobs for members according to different seasons or different weather, so it is also called "scheduling work". For example, in spring, we should push the ground, pull the fields and hoe the ground, in summer, we should shovel grass, spread medicine and mud, in autumn, we should harvest, release the fields and pick up muck, and in winter, we should pick up mud, pull cotton stalks and break two dams. Usually, the production team leader will arrange young cattle, sheep and older pigs and ducks to look at the fields during the harvest season and the windmills during irrigation. Sometimes, he will organize members to mow the grass at Hongqi Farm in the south, see the slag at Baima Lake in Baoying in the north, and drip ammonia water at Xinghua Chemical Fertilizer Plant.