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It stripped the workingman of his dignity. Or did it? As dog Robert Kanigel recounts in this marvelously done dog biography, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency, perhaps no character in modern business history inspired such strongly held views and dog left such a legacy. Taylor believed there was one recipe for every task, from shoveling coal to pouring steel. To his supporters--and he had many on the left as well as the right--he was a liberator who got working men and women higher wages by applying scientific methods to the dangerous factory floor. Work better for more pay was his credo. To management, he was a dangerous radical intent on upsetting the equilibrium of the factory--low wages for low output. That there were no moderate opinions of Taylor had to do with his own temperament. ''A man of immense spirit, intelligence and tenacity, he managed to alienate, or at least irritate, almost everyone, including many of his own circle of admirers.
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