PHILOSOPHY

The constant research for best efficiency as well as eficacy have always lead to different approaches towards “evolution”. During the beginning of the 20th century one name stood out in the crowd for his vision of this two terms: Frederick Winslow Taylor, the father of the Taylorism, process of reducing waste by looking for inefficient worker activity and improving workshop organization based upon scientific studies of human efficiency and incentive systems.

This culture was satirized by Charlie Chaplin in the movie Modern Times where he exacerbates one of the later known worst problems of this system, the “robotization” of the workers who would be constricted to do one only movement. Union advocates argued that the methods treated workers like machines and ignored psychological factors, and resulted in deskilling and systematic disempowering of workers. In practice the system increased the number of unskilled workers, and also the number of skilled workers and engineers, squeezing out old-time craftsmen set in their traditions.

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