Taylorized management treats the workforce as a single fragile machine

Evidence

American industrialists are concerned to maintain the continuity of the physical and muscular-nervous efficiency of the worker. It is in their interests to have a stable, skilled labour force, a permanently well-adjusted complex, because the human complex (the collective worker) of an enterprise is also a machine which cannot, without considerable loss, be taken to pieces too often and renewed with single new parts. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1119

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘collective worker as machine’ dovetails with Gramsci’s later hegemony concept and with Braverman’s labor process theory.

Related

• Taylorism deliberately breaks up skilled workers’ psycho-physical nexus (similarity 0.82)
• Mechanized work frees the worker’s brain rather than mummifying it (similarity 0.80)