Today, even as the gig economy thrives, Taylorism is relevant and might be the most successful management idea ever implemented. However, there is a dark side. Work intermediated by algorithms - such as making deliveries or ride-hailing - subjects workers to algorithmic control. It s much closer to the assembly line model than to Taylor s vision of profit-sharing.
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You might think that an apparently harmless public good like a library would have no enemies. But in the age of Trump and his movement to Make America Grotesque Again, there turn out to be many.