Chapter Tra taylorismo e fordismo: il lavoratore nella società industriale

Overview & Synopsis

Often considered as a whole, Taylorism and Fordism are two concepts that express different realities, with different extensions and practical applications. The chapter explores these two paradigms showing their differences together with their strong connections. The aim is understanding what the underlying vision of work is, from which over time a precise and dominant vision of society and of economic and social relations has arisen which governed the West between 1910 and 1975 and which in part is still present today. A vision that, far from being neutral, implies a specific ideology of the relationship between human beings and work.