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so long as they control the labor process itself

The conclusions which Taylor drew from the baptism by fire he received in the Midvale struggle may be summarized as follows: Workers who are controlled only by general orders and discipline are not adequately controlled, because they retain their grip on the actual processes of labor. So long as th…

—p.100 Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century 4. Scientific Management (85) by Harry Braverman
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profit would be impossible

The issue here turned on the work content of a day’s labor power, which Taylor defines in the phrase “a fair day’s work.” To this term he gave a crude physiological interpretation: all the work a worker can do without injury to his health, at a pace that can be sustained throughout a working lifeti…

—p.97 4. Scientific Management (85) by Harry Braverman
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almost every day ingenious accidents were planned

[...] I had predicted to the owners of the company what would happen when we began to win, and had warned them that they must stand by me; so that I had the backing of the company in taking effective steps to checkmate the final move of the men. Every time I broke a rate or forced one of the new me…

—p.96 4. Scientific Management (85) by Harry Braverman
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how best to control alienated labor

[...] Friedmann treats Taylorism as though it were a “science of work,” where in reality it is intended to be a science of the management of others ‘work under capitalist conditions.6 It is not the “best way” to do work “in general” that Taylor was seeking, as Friedmann seems to assume, but an answ…

—p.90 4. Scientific Management (85) by Harry Braverman
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if such craftsmen are employed exclusively

It is clear from this tabulation, as Babbage points out, that if the minimum pay for a craftsman capable of performing all operations is no more than the highest pay in the above listing, and if such craftsmen are employed exclusively, then the labor costs of manufacture would be more than doubled,…

—p.80 3. The Division of Labor (70) by Harry Braverman