#Taylorism, or #ScientificManagement, comes from the work of #Progressive-era efficiency-expert #FrederickTaylor, born #ThisDayInHistory in 1856. His work caused new heights in #AlienatedLabour. Here is a #JobAction joke on it by #UtahPhillips that I love:
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#Marx matters? ;)

#AlienatedLabour
#Alienation

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1818, #KarlMarx was born in Trier. An essential insight into industrial capitalism was #AlienatedLabour -- that labour specialization and private ownership make us into machines working for another's profit instead of our own. Much misery comes of this.