On this day, 20 March 1856, engineer Frederick Taylor was born in Philadelphia. He was the founder of “Scientific Management,” often known as Taylorism, which was a scheme to improve workers’ efficiency and break up workers’ solidarity. It was adopted widely both in the West and by Lenin, Trotsky and later Stalin in the Soviet Union. This is a great article about the introduction of Taylorist practices to American firms, and how radical workers responded: https://ift.tt/1zA2mEs https://ift.tt/2TX76cM