NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stopwatch, Fixed Capital, Harry Braverman
4 Feb 2016
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Nats 1775 unit 7: scientific management (taylorism: frederick taylor and scientific management. Fredrick taylor first published his book principles of scientific management in. Book synthesizes work he began in 1860s. Taylor believed that scientific laws which govern natural world should be applied to workplace claimed that workers would be more productive if the same scientific axioms used for machines were applied to activities of labor. Was there anything actually scientific about taylor"s ideas not really. Wanted to design management system that would reorganize the conditions of work in factory. Management also did not have technical knowledge to keep track of labor production. Workers engage in soldiering: work slowly to keep piece rates high and protect jobs. Key aspects of scientific management: substitution of science for individual judgment, scientific selection of workmen, greater cooperation between management and workers, work should be governed by scientific laws.
