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Today, even as the gig economy thrives, Taylorism is relevant and might be the most successful management idea ever implemented. However, there is a dark side. Work intermediated by algorithms - such as making deliveries or ride-hailing - subjects workers to algorithmic control. Its much closer to the assembly line model than to Taylors vision of profit-sharing.

Public libraries are just about the only public institution that does not hurt anyone. Not only do they provide a free education for millions...

You might think that an apparently harmless public good like a library would have no enemies. But in the age of Trump, they have many.

You might think that an apparently harmless public good like a library would have no enemies. But in the age of Trump and his movement to Make America Grotesque Again, there turn out to be many.

How did unelected experts with their unwavering devotion to science rise to such power in American life? More than a century ago, an engineer named Frederick W Taylor inspired progressive activists with a new concept he called scientific management. Future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis took Taylor’s concept and married it with political power.

Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler has a few ideas for how to regulate the "Digital Gilded Age."

Just as tree rings chronicle past climates, isotopic patterns in coral track historical shifts in ocean currents. According to a recent study in the journal Nature Geoscience, the western boundary current of the Pacific Ocean, a key regulator of sea surface temperatures and weather patterns, has si

Mike Davis on the introduction of Taylorist management techniques to break up workers solidarity, and the response of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union.

There are three main challenges for regulating artificial intelligence: dealing with the speed of AI developments, parsing the components of what to regulate, and determining who has the authority to regulate and in what manner they can do so.

Labor fought for a long time to draw a bright line between work and home. It took almost no time at all to erase it.