Tools & manufacturing · 1911
Scientific management
Time and motion studies turn work into measured, optimized steps.
Frederick Winslow Taylor published The Principles of Scientific Management in 1911. Measuring tasks reshaped factory organization worldwide.
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What it led to 1
Related measurements
The dashed line marks when it first worked.
Annual working hours in the UK since 1260 Latest: 1.67k hours per worker (2016) Source: Our World in Data