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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

A work crew typically consisted of three to half a dozen men (and they were all men) who were task organized to strip the coal off the seam face, shovel it into mining carts, and move those carts to the transport system. The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” Productivity plummeted.