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To add to Sara's comment men were the machine. Machines back in the early 1900s were not nearly as effective as the machines we have today. There was still a huge amount of work that had to be done by man that could not be done by machine. I could see that the argument would be that the machine would lessen the amount the employer has to pay, but at the same time they were not scientifically advanced at that time to make significant changes. In other words, they still needed man-power in the early 1900s. Although today in some ways machine has taken some of the jobs that used to occupy man in today's society. -Jeff R. | To add to Sara's comment men were the machine. Machines back in the early 1900s were not nearly as effective as the machines we have today. There was still a huge amount of work that had to be done by man that could not be done by machine. I could see that the argument would be that the machine would lessen the amount the employer has to pay, but at the same time they were not scientifically advanced at that time to make significant changes. In other words, they still needed man-power in the early 1900s. Although today in some ways machine has taken some of the jobs that used to occupy man in today's society. -Jeff R. | ||
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| + | I thought that the article about Scientific Management was interesting because it altered the way we do things even today. I don’t agree that every person needed to do a certain job in the amount of time that they designate to the job. That’s why many people lost their job or were not getting paid for doing a specialty job that now has been streamlined. The only professions that did not go through this were being a doctor or a lawyer. You had to go to school for these professions. When machines were invented it really took a person’s specialty skills and made them feel useless. Now there are more specialty jobs for people who have the training, certificates, or schooling.---Pam Petzold | ||
== Christine Frederick, The New Housekeeping, 1913 == | == Christine Frederick, The New Housekeeping, 1913 == | ||
