Taylorism, Fordism, Toyotism, or the History of Capitalist Rationalization of Labor
The history of capitalist rationalization of labor is the history of capitalist ways ofraising exploitation of workers. In the first book of Capital, Marx devotes many pages tothese policies of employers for increasing surplus value.It is interesting to note that Fredefick Winslow Taylor took up the reflection whereMarx left it, but in the service of employers. He decomposed labor into tasks (as thedivision of labor of the manufacture had done before him) and the task into gestures. Eachone of those gestures was then analyzed. Implicitly, he then decomposed the latter and inparticular the time each gesture represented into three categories, which were to be essentialfor every rationalization of labor:
Henri Houben
Institut dEtudes marxistes(INEM)Institute of Marxist Studies 68 rue de la Caserne 1000 Bruxelles-Brussels Belgique-Belgium
国际会议
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2007-10-26(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)