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The opportunity cameras changed his life, cameras and with it, the entire practice of work. ''Taylorism,'' as every student of late 19th century history learns, turned craft work into assembly line work. It presaged automation and the machine age, gave us speedups, downsizings, and rules for every job. For Taylor haters, it turned workers into robots, mechanized production, gave rise to trade cameras unions, and replaced judgment with the time clock and stop watch. It stripped the workingman of his dignity. Or did it? As Robert Kanigel recounts in this marvelously done 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 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.
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