Taylorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Taylorisms
Etymology: From Taylor + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Rev. Edward Beecher, a strenous advocate of Taylorism, has been equally explicit on this point.
ref: 1834, Tyler Thacher, Taylorism Examined: Or a Review of the New Haven Theology, page 83:
text: 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.
ref: 1911, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 900:
text: Taylorism presented two practical difficulties for person who adopted this theology.
ref: 1994, Julius H. Rubin, Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America, page 131:
synonyms: New England theology
glosses: The Reformed school of theology developed by Nathaniel William Taylor.
examples: text: One of the ideological supporting pillars of systems thinking in the 1920s had been Lenin's analysis of Taylorism.
ref: 1982, Ilmari Susiluoto, The Origins and Development of Systems Thinking in the Soviet Union, page 146:
text: The separation of planning and control from work execution is constitutive for Taylorism.
ref: 1993, Ulrich Jürgens, Thomas Malsch, Knuth Dohse, Breaking from Taylorism, page 50:
text: Taylorism proved to be more persistent than many had expected.
ref: 1997, Hans D. Pruijt, Job Design and Technology: Taylorism Vs. Anti-Taylorism, page 1:
text: According to Braverman's thesis, Taylorism, or scientific management, has been the key feature in the devaluation and dequalification of work.
ref: 2016, Lorraine Giordano, Beyond Taylorism, page 28:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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'.
ref: 1975, British Book News, page 432:
text: 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'.
ref: 1983, Peter Quennell, History Today - Volume 33, page 30:
text: 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.
ref: 1989, Raymond A. Jones, Arthur Ponsonby: The Politics of Life, page Arthur Ponsonby: The Politics of Life:
text: 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.
ref: 2016, M. R. D. Foot, Resistance: European Resistance to the Nazis, 1940-1945:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of the witty, epigrammatic remarks on international relations for which the historian Alan John Percivale Taylor was well-known.
Related terms: Taylorian
Taylorist