Taylorism and Fordism

Börnfelt P-O ()

Chapter Chapter 2 in Work Organisation in Practice, 2023, pp 25-37 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In Taylorism the division of work changes in a fundamental way compared to earlier work organisations in manufacturing industry. Management takes control of the work process, plans the production and workers are degraded to only performing simple, standardised and repetitive tasks. For workers the work is de-skilled, compared to the earlier more artisan-like work, that is the work requires less skill and knowledge. The work is coordinated, through command and control by supervisors, standardised tasks and formal assignments. The same division of labour and coordination principles are used in Fordism. In Fordism the assembly line is added as a coordination/control principle, which controls the work pace in a very concrete way. Taylorism and Fordism led to a considerable increase in productivity but the negative effects for workers were numerous such as de-skilling, passivation, alienation and ill-health.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21667-1_2

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