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Why Organized Labor Opposes Scientific Management

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1916 31(1), 62
Scientific management defined, 62. — Time and motion study its distinctive device, 63. — Opposition of labor leaders, 64. — Causes to which the opposition is ascribed, 65. — Examination of the alleged causes, 66. — The fundamental cause, 70. — Craft unions of the dominant type are essentially business organizations, 72. — Their attitude toward output and efficiency, 73. — Scientific management looks to constant change; unionism to fixity and uniformity, 77. — Consequent difference of attitude toward time and motion study, 81. — Fundamental principles incompatible, 82.