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the belief that a stopwatch and a clipboard can turn a human into a machine part.
means a management theory that breaks work into timed, standardized tasks to squeeze maximum efficiency out of workers.
from named for frederick winslow taylor, an engineer who in the 1880s-1900s timed factory workers with stopwatches to find the one best way to shovel, lift, or assemble anything, publishing his findings as the principles of scientific management in 1911.
his obsessiononce optimized how workers should shovel coal
legacyinspired both henry ford and soviet factory planners
backlashworkers hated being timed like machines, strikes followed
modern echoamazon warehouse trackers are taylorism with an app