Taylorism

Rev. Edward Beecher, a strenous advocate of Taylorism, has been equally explicit on this point.

In the first half of the 19th century, under the lead of Nathaniel W. Taylor (q.v.) , the Divinity School of Yale became nationally prominent for "Taylorism" or New Haven Theology.

Taylorism presented two practical difficulties for person who adopted this theology.

One of the ideological supporting pillars of systems thinking in the 1920s had been Lenin's analysis of Taylorism.

The separation of planning and control from work execution is constitutive for Taylorism.

Taylorism proved to be more persistent than many had expected.

According to Braverman's thesis, Taylorism, or scientific management, has been the key feature in the devaluation and dequalification of work.

The brisk and lively narrative is spiced with Taylorisms: ' Hitler lost , as someone has to do in war, and has therefore been written off as a psychopath'.

It is full of what friends of mine at Oxford used to call 'Taylorisms', and as research students there we used to collect them — from his 'except the Italians ' in The Struggle for Mastery to his famous claim at the end of The Origins of the Second World War that Hitler 'became involved in war through launching on 29 August a diplomatic manoeuvre which he ought to have launched on 28 August'.

What makes Ponsonby significant is that he was one of A.J.P. Taylor's ' troublemakers' whom Taylor credits with all change and advance in history. While some would say that this is a typically large and perverse Taylorism, it is not without an element of truth when applied to the role played by Ponsonby and his fellow troublemakers in the search for a new international order.

A.J.P. Taylor, The Second World War (Hamish Hamilton 1975), like Jacobsen's book, consists of pictorial history; liberally sprinkled with taylorisms, and not inclined to overstress resistance.