SOC 472 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Soldering, Elton Mayo, Hawthorne Effect
7 Dec 2017
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Week 4: modern management alienated worker (braveman reading) Scientific management views work from the capitalist"s perspective and not the worker"s perspective. It assumes that workers don"t want to work and that the relationship with management is antagonistic. It comes across as though it is scientific and objective but really is nothing more than another form management and control. It is not a science of work but a science of how to control people. The study of work and the improvement of work has always existed, but it was always done by workers or craftsmen. It was not done by management until capitalism. Many worked on division of labour, both physical and mental, like charles babbage. But taylor captures everyone"s previous work and put it altogether into one theory: Scientific management: bavermann is critical of taylorism. But talyorism takes it to the extreme. Controlling work is not new it has always existed.
