ABSTRACT
As an adult and guru to large-scale industry, Frederick Taylor was obsessed with efficient motion and his unshakeable belief that management should formalize the actions of workers down to the most minute detail. His adherents – and Taylor's work was of huge influence in all the industrializing world – considered him an eccentric genius; his detractors thought him a compulsive neurotic. Rationalization allows logical inferences to be made about any event that is thought to be subject to an accepted system of beliefs, based on the component's supposed relationship with the larger system. The process of rationalizing a phenomenon is the process of accommodating its characteristics within some cohesive system of belief, so that these characteristics come to draw their significance from their relationship to other elements in the system. According to the Marxist system of belief, capitalist rationalization was a systematic process of extracting from workers the value produced by their labour.
