The article is authored by Frederick Taylor, who had quite a strong sense of what he thought would improve this situation: Scientific Taylorism mixed with higher wages resulting in a shift of worker attitudes.
While today we can debate the growing chasm between worker productivity and wages, it iss important to remember that for over 60 years after this article was written:
- Management practices continued to become more rigorously productivity oriented
- Wages rose in tandem and in proportion to productivity
For all of the faults debated over taylorism and the defects that have developed in our system a century later, on the merits of those points I would say this article has aged well.
While today we can debate the growing chasm between worker productivity and wages, it iss important to remember that for over 60 years after this article was written:
- Management practices continued to become more rigorously productivity oriented
- Wages rose in tandem and in proportion to productivity
For all of the faults debated over taylorism and the defects that have developed in our system a century later, on the merits of those points I would say this article has aged well.