ABSTRACT
In the Taylorism or scientific management approach, Frederick Taylor felt that the industrial order had been changed. The concept of Fordism—intrinsically tied to Taylorism or scientific management—took the world by storm in from 1918 to 1968. Since it used an assembly line, it could not make the pace of work the central aspect of payment like Taylorism; nonetheless, it shared many concepts of work design. Lean production starts with the quality control movement within the statistics and mathematics field in the United States. The chapter discusses lean production as the new division of labor defining the term more precisely and show how it developed in manufacturing and then how it spread to services from hospitals to Silicon Valley. Many scholars see the division of labor as a fountain of progress, especially in earlier times, and a tsunami of boredom and alienation in some views. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
