The Shallows

In Chapter Eight, how did Frederick Winslow Taylor's methods increase productivity in the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s?

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In Chapter Eight, Carr describes how Frederick Winslow Taylor brought a stopwatch into the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s and recorded and timed a group of workers' every movements. Then Taylor broke down each task into its smallest parts and tested different ways of preforming them to maximize efficiency and output. Carr posits that Taylor created an early algorithm for maximizing workers' efficiency.