This essay focuses on Taylorist methods of production. continue to apply the methodology to maximize profits no matter the cost to workers.
Finally, in bringing Taylorism into the 21st Century, you will read a few chapters from.“
The Global Auction,” and watch a couple of documentaries that explain what happens. This is when you press the “return” button on your computer, and the next day your Amazon package arrives. You will see who is making it happen and the conditions. This is of work they are being expose too. You will see how “Digital Taylorism” is already having an impact on jobs. They are that some of you might take after you graduate. Thus, while there are clear alternatives to using Taylorist methods of production. The employers continue to apply the methodology to maximize profits no matter the cost to workers.
In Sum…
I want to know where you stand on this question, from a historical perspective, was it good for us collectively, even if it was at the expense of workers who did the deadening work? And would you agree or disagree that since it is still clearly an efficient and useful time saving, profit maximizing tool, should we encourage employers to continue using it in the present—even if it means dumbing down jobs that at the moment might seem attractive to recently minted college graduates?
This is your task. It needs to be a solid argument for or against Taylorism and it needs to be grounded in the history as well as how Taylorism is being used in the present.