Taylorism deliberately breaks up skilled workers’ psycho-physical nexus

Evidence

However it is done, and it is not the spiritual death of man. Once the process of adaptation has been completed, what really happens is that the brain of the worker, far from being mummified, reaches a state of complete freedom. The only thing that is completely mechanicised is the physical gesture; the memory of the trade, reduced to simple gestures repeated at an intense rhythm, “nestles” in the muscular and nervous centres and leaves the brain free and unencumbered for other occupations. … American industrialists have understood all too well this dialectic inherent in the new industrial methods. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mechanized work frees the worker’s brain rather than mummifying it — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139; Mass-psychology predictions missed mass man’s radical loss of self-interest; Gramsci’s concept of ‘Dirigente’ links cultural hegemony to workers controlling the work process (+5 more)

Related

• Mechanized work frees the worker’s brain rather than mummifying it (similarity 0.90)
• Taylorized management treats the workforce as a single fragile machine (similarity 0.82)
• Official philosophy is reduced to a mental Taylorism serving industry (similarity 0.80)
• The worker’s alienation from his labor becomes the source of his cognitive strength (similarity 0.79)
• Mechanization sustains exploitation while shifting its form from muscular to mental exhaustion. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Mechanized work frees the worker’s brain rather than mummifying it #contradicts (0.90) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139
• Mass-psychology predictions missed mass man’s radical loss of self-interest #expands (0.70)