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At War With The Machine: Canadian Workers’ Resistance To Taylorism In The Early 20th Century, Sean Antaya
At War With The Machine: Canadian Workers’ Resistance To Taylorism In The Early 20th Century, Sean Antaya
The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History
This essay looks at the ways Frederick Winslow Taylor's distinctly modern theories of scientific management (i.e. Taylorism) transformed Canadian workplaces in the early 20thcentury. In particular, it shows how Taylorism negatively impacted Canadian workers' lives, and examines the various ways that workers consequently resisted Taylorist methods. The essay argues that though workers were unable to stop the widespread implementation of Taylorism and its normalization in Canadian workplaces, their resistance to Taylorism still played an important role in unionist and radical political movements which gradually gained important concessions and rights for Canadian workers during the first half of the …