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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. It's much closer to the assembly line model than to Taylor's 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.