Greetings Economists,
On Aug 11, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Les Schaffer wrote:
so then i guess Taylorism is one attempt to turn LTV on its head, by
using labor time as a weapon against workers?
Doyle;
Look at their main tool for motion studies, movie records of work
processes. They would attach lights or white paper dots to a person
wearing black clothes to track digitized quantities (points or
numerical units) in space, but linearized as movies (film strips,
video tape rolls) do to capture motion. They simply had not the
technical grasp of visually measuring the non-linear aspects of work
motion. We would call now the interactive qualities of work.
Taylor could argue that moving all the parts closer to a worker
improves efficiency by showing the savings in motion time. They never
were about network structure of information in the studies because the
tools themselves obscured the connectedness of labor processes. These
questions could be more directly addressed now in the sense we better
understand how to think of the field of points physically in a dynamic
system (truck dispatching for deliveries), but the concept of
interactivity, or human related questions about labor are still a
frontier of sorts in labor theory.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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