In dubious battle by Steinbeck

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…its employees. Also the higher pay would increase the morale of the workers, then the efficiency of production would be higher which means the work would get done faster and better. This concept made the economy stronger, made the workers richer and made Ford more profitable. If the growers had implemented this same idea with the pickers their morale would have been higher and the work would have been done with out a costly strike.