economics and work
type: Concept
narrower: Taylorism

scientific management
type: Concept
related: Taylorism

concepts
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type: ConceptGroup
member: Taylorism

Taylorism
type: Concept
definition: Taylorism is a set of ideas regarding factory management developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States under the name of “scientific management.” The core of Taylorism is a system of task management in which managers and engineers are responsible for planning and task optimization, primarily through motion and time study, while workers are responsible for carrying out discrete tasks as directed. The so-called scientific management movement, which began in earnest in the late 19th century, drew on some earlier ideas, most famously those of Charles Babbage(1791–1871)and W. S. Jevons(1835–1882). [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Taylorism]
related: scientific management
broader: economics and work