Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Study Guide - Scientific Management, Deskilling

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B
• Professor: John Reed

Document Summary

Manufacture: division of labour, isolation of skills/tasks. Division of labour over an entire organization. Scientific approach on how to be get paid more: machines and automated systems receive the focus more productive. Separation of labour from: machinery takes on a kind of thought. Divides profits with employees instead of paying higher wages. Encouraged workers to consume human form; an organism itself. Human goes from being in charge of personal touches like skill and craft to just being a machine operator. Standardizing of tools and equipment; investigation of their qualities and capacity. Determines the one best way to do things items from ford: pay tied to profit. System is in control, human just: extremely inflexible, make one thing, make a lot of tries to fit in. Machinery assumes the material form previously reserved for humans: replaces the worker. Technology absorbs all previous skill, experience and knowledge of the worker: no sickness or injury, standardized, repeatable.