# Taylorism
## English
### Etymology

From Taylor +‎ -ism.

### Noun

Taylorism (usually uncountable, plural Taylorisms)
* The Reformed school of theology developed by Nathaniel William Taylor.
    Synonym: New England theology
** 1834, Tyler Thacher, Taylorism Examined: Or a Review of the New Haven Theology, page 83:Rev. Edward Beecher, a strenous advocate of Taylorism, has been equally explicit on this point.
** 1911, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 900: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.
** 1994, Julius H. Rubin, Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America, page 131:Taylorism presented two practical difficulties for person who adopted this theology.
* Scientific management; a theory of management of the early 20th century that analyzed workflows in order to improve efficiency, originally developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor.
** 1982, Ilmari Susiluoto, The Origins and Development of Systems Thinking in the Soviet Union, page 146:One of the ideological supporting pillars of systems thinking in the 1920s had been Lenin's analysis of Taylorism.
** 1993, Ulrich Jürgens, Thomas Malsch, Knuth Dohse, Breaking from Taylorism, page 50:The separation of planning and control from work execution is constitutive for Taylorism.
** 1997, Hans D. Pruijt, Job Design and Technology: Taylorism Vs. Anti-Taylorism, page 1:Taylorism proved to be more persistent than many had expected.
** 2016, Lorraine Giordano, Beyond Taylorism, page 28:According to Braverman's thesis, Taylorism, or scientific management, has been the key feature in the devaluation and dequalification of work.
* (countable, history) One of the witty, epigrammatic remarks on international relations for which the historian Alan John Percivale Taylor was well-known.
** 1975, British Book News, page 432: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'.
** 1983, Peter Quennell, History Today - Volume 33, page 30: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'.
** 1989, Raymond A. Jones, Arthur Ponsonby: The Politics of Life, page Arthur Ponsonby: The Politics of Life: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.
** 2016, M. R. D. Foot, Resistance: European Resistance to the Nazis, 1940-1945: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.

#### Related terms

* Taylorian
* Taylorist

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### Further reading

* New England theology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Taylorism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Taylorism (history) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia