Chapter NineScience and the OxUnderstanding Work and Workers
This chapter provides a brief background of the study of work, from the objectivism of Frederick Taylor to today, when the interiority of workers is also given substantial attention.
It is 1878. You are a shop supervisor in a sprawling steelworks in the 28th ward of Philadelphia. There are 150 adult and a dozen or so child employees. Though slightly but perpetually dazed by the hiss and bang of the foundries, mills, and railcars moving raw and finished stock around the plant, you pride yourself in watching your workers narrowly. Are these men working the lathes “marking time” and working slower than they might? It is hard to say – certainly under their ...
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