 As for the records of the Stakhanovists, a number of historians note that their methods were a continuous method of increasing productivity, previously popularized by Frederick Taylor and Henry Ford, which Lenin called the "sweatshop system".In addition, records were largely staged and were the result of the efforts of their assistants, and in practice turned the pursuit of quantity at the expense of product quality.Due to the fact that wages were proportional to productivity, the wages of Stakhanovists were several times higher than the average wages in industry.