#Frederick Taylor

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Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh (Left to right: Eduardo Garcia Benito, Frederick Taylor, Sheilah Beckett, Evelyn Waugh, Unknown, Mary Evans, Quentin Blake, Bentley/Farrell/Burnett, Kate Baylay)

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Frederick Taylor; Shipyard, Manzanillo Jal., Mexico

[tenth-sentence]

Taylorism lives on in timesheets, billable hours and KPIs, in doctor pay-for-performance programmes and in warehouse staff whose every move is monitored by CCTV.

"Humankind: A Hopeful History" - Rutger Bregman

[frederickwtaylor]

The Mental Revolution

Before Taylor’s principles could be implemented, he stated that first the attitudes of the workers and management needed to change. He defined his work as “a complete mental revolution on both the part of the workingman connected in any establishment and an equally complete mental revolution on the part of those on the management’s side”. Managers and workers needed to change their outlook on each other.

Therefore, they could turn their focus towards maximising profit. It would also create a more productive work environment and improve society as a whole. Taylor stated “Without this complete mental revolution on both sides, scientific management does not exist.” He found that for an organisation to operate to its maximum potential, the organisation and its employees needed to have a similar perspective and attitude towards the organisation.

He utilised this way of identifying scientific management as a way to demonstrate how it is a system rather than a solution. It is not an ‘efficiency device’ or a ‘motion study’, it was something completely new and unique.

It needed to be adapted by everyone, not just management or the workers.

The effects of Taylor's 'Mental Revolution' were later examined. One study carried out on the Link- Belt Company (an engineering company who were one of the first firms to adapt Taylor’s principles of management science), illustrated that scientific management had overall improved the efficiency of the firms, however, it did not necessarily promote unity between management and the workforce. Therefore in this particular example, his complete mental revolution was not accomplished.

~ David Kelly

References:

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

slut! // say don't go

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Frederick B. Taylor - Early Winter, 1947 (November 13)

[pureanonofficial]

CHESS at The Muny (July 5-11, 2023)

Each game of chess Means there's one less Variation left to be played Each day got through Means one or two Less mistakes remain to be made

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

taylor swift lyrics x colors x textiles in art – orange

Soon You’ll Get Better – Lover // Flaming June – Frederic Leighton 🧡 marjorie – evermore // Portrait of Emilia Włodkowska – Józef Simmler

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske and Clyde Geronimi)

13/09/2024

[fuckstoevsky]

Midnights & Sleepers (part 3)

part 1 here

part 2 here

part 4 here

Sleeping Young Woman - Lovis Corinth // Calm Sleep - Vishalandra Dakur // Sleep - Barbara Agreste // The Great War - Taylor Swift // Sleeping Girl - Domenico Fetti // Full Moon - Eric Zener // Sleeping Woman - Frances Kuehn // Bigger Than The Whole Sky - Taylor Swift // Sleeping Beauty - Edward Frederick Brewtnall // Sleep - Francisco Goya // Aaron Johnson - Nature Stories, Sleeping Woman // Paris - Taylor Swift // Girl Watching Television - Włodzimierz Kukliński // Sleeping by Day - Ray Caesar // Girl's Dream - Yaşar Vurdem // High Infidelity - Taylor Swift // Let Dreams Come - Emilia Pawlikowska // The Giver - Kathryn Petroff // Dream of Atlantis - Josephine Wall // Glitch - Taylor Swift // Two Women Asleep in a Punt Under The Willows - John Singer Sargent // The Siesta - Camille Pissarro // Sleeping Beauty - Thomas Spence // Would've Could've Should've - Taylor Swift // Taking a Nap - Annie Lee // Sleeping - Vladimir Volegov // Spiritual Nap I - Sterling Brown // Dear Reader - Taylor Swift

[critdeeznuts]

taylor being 19 is such a scary thought

[pyjamatranslation]

Lock and Safe Imagery in The Tortured Poets Department Album 🗝️🔒

So Long London

I stopped trying to make him laugh, stopped trying to drill the safe

Guilty as Sin?

I dream of cracking locks. I keep these longings locked in lowercase inside a vault

I Hate it Here

I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind, people need a key to get to, the only one is mine

Tortured Poets Department

Who else decodes you?

Fresh Out the Slammer

Years of labor, locks and ceilings in the shade of how he was feeling

He don't understand me

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There is a difference between these references and ones where she mentions cages and feeling locked up/trapped. These vault and safe cracking references feel like trying to get to know someone and being unable to reach that inner part of them.

[oldsardens]

Frederick Bourchier Taylor - Seated Nude

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Taylor Swift + ocean imagery

[camyfilms]

ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIONS 1961

My only true love, darling. I live for furs. I worship furs! After all, is there a woman in all this wretched world who doesn't?

[ardentesoteric]

Persuasion Modern AU headcanon: After Anne and Frederick get back together, whenever Frederick is in anything close to a bad mood when they are out, Anne finds a way to make him listen to “I Bet You Think About Me” by Taylor Swift.  It’s been an inside joke since the first time Anne heard the song, and she teases him that several of the lyrics are actual thoughts he must have had when they first met after the broken engagement.

If she’s had enough to drink, her first choice is karaoke so that she can really get into pretending to be singing it as Frederick (and if she’s had more than enough to drink, she tries stealing his hat or jacket before going to the mic, just to make it clear), but if it’s just hearing it over a sound system, she still does a highly involved lip sync and dance.  It has a 99% success rate of making him smile one of her favorite smiles of his.