Late nineteenth-century American machine shop foreman Frederick Winslow Taylor had a problem: his friends didn’t like him. Rather like Samuel Bentham a century earlier, he began his career in a facility defined by working-class solidarity but did not himself come from the working class. Workers in Taylor’s shop at Midvale Steel Company collaborated to determine exactly how fast labor in the shop would be. Opposing the market imperative to work f…
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