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Journal of Management History, 22
Journal of Management History, 22
JMH 24,1 In this, the first issue of 2018, our six articles add to debates both new and old. In the first article –“Labor at the Taylor Society: Scientific Management and a Proactive Approach to Increase Diversity for Effective Problem Solving” – Hindy Schachter, Professor of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, contributes to the “revisionist” school of thought regarding the work and influence of Frederick Taylor, the “father” of scientific management. This revisionist school, whose prominent members include Kyle Bruce and Chris Nyland, have taken umbrage at those who – to cite Bruce –“have demonized Taylor and Taylorism” (Bruce, 2016, p. 171). In the “traditional” view, perhaps most famously articulated by Harry Braverman in Labor and Monopoly Capital, Taylorism is depicted as an agent of work intensification, hostile to the interests of both individual workers and the organised labour movement as a whole. In Braverman’s (1974, pp. 120-21) opinion, “Modern management came into being” with Taylor, reducing workers “to the level of general and undifferentiated labor power”. The revisionist contestation of this view has largely occurred within the pages of this journal. It is a contestation that has, moreover, been well received, at least in certain
Journal of Management History – Emerald Publishing
Published: Jan 8, 2018
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