Scientific management
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Taylor and his team promised to rationalize manufacture, rendering it more efficient and productive, by determining the “one best way” for every aspect of the work process
Scientific management, for all its pretensions, was less about determining ideal working methods and more about shattering this tremendous source of worker power.
Scientific management was, then, less a science of efficiency and more a political program for reshaping the worker as a pliant subject—what Taylor himself called “a complete mental revolution on the part of the workingmen … toward their work, toward their fellow men, and toward their employers.”
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