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--- week_5_questions_comments-325_25 [2025/09/25 13:12] – [Christine Frederick, The New Housekeeping, 1913] 199.111.65.11
+++ week_5_questions_comments-325_25 [2025/09/25 13:13] (current) – [Henry Mitchell, Penobscot Indian, 1938] 199.111.65.11
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 ==== 1913 Watertown arsenal’s striking workers’ petition to end Taylorism ====
-This petition is particularly interesting because it partly echoes the potential problems predicted by J. O’Connell and, at the same time, engages with the broader discourse on the vulnerability of the worker’s body from the previous seminar’s texts. One of its arguments is that Taylor’s system exhausts people by unnecessarily speeding up the process, resembling “the slave driver.” - Nikolai Kotkov
+**This petition is particularly interesting because it partly echoes the potential problems predicted by J. O’Connell and, at the same time, engages with the broader discourse on the vulnerability of the worker’s body from the previous seminar’s texts.** One of its arguments is that Taylor’s system exhausts people by unnecessarily speeding up the process, resembling “the slave driver.” - Nikolai Kotkov
 Taylorism set strict times on workers using a stop watch to time and make sure that the workers were completing task on time set by management. This was deeply disliked because it was degrading and thought it as being undermined and losing their skills. Workers went on strike to get rid of this as no one seem to like this system. - Will C
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 This document shows an example of what O’Connell was discussing in the previous meeting. Being put on a stop watch in order to make workers work faster and more “efficiently” is pushing them beyond what they are capable of and, as they’re saying, is not a sustainable and safe practice. - Grayson Donohoe
-What this goal of efficiency doesn't fully plan for or planed for in this time period is the over working or exhaustion from the workforce. When people not doing the tasks (management) are now in timely control of the people doing the tasks (work force) and that work force now finds the timely management unreasonable, it is inevitable strikes were coming. --James Clayberg
+**What this goal of efficiency doesn't fully plan for or planed for in this time period is the over working or exhaustion from the workforce.** When people not doing the tasks (management) are now in timely control of the people doing the tasks (work force) and that work force now finds the timely management unreasonable, it is inevitable strikes were coming. --James Clayberg
-The document covers the workers striking because of the harsh and unfair working conditions. The workers expressed that there were more accidents because of Taylor’s principles and being so rushed for time to meet their daily quota. They expressed that they system caused distrust within a worker to management relationship by being put in an unfair and unsafe work environment. - Izzy Ellenberger
+The document covers the workers striking because of the harsh and unfair working conditions. The workers expressed that there were more accidents because of Taylor’s principles and being so rushed for time to meet their daily quota.** They expressed that they system caused distrust within a worker to management relationship by being put in an unfair and unsafe work environment.** - Izzy Ellenberger
 When push came to shove, action needed to be taken, and that's what the workers were doing here in their strike.  Their complaint about the unsafe conditions due to working trying to meet the goal in a specific time was the bases behind their strike. - David Y.
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 This story was very entertaining to read, but also sad. The manager didn't see the value in the Native's experience and used them as a form of entertainment for customers. Sam Gray saw them as fitting an image of what the company should be and even had a picture of a Native American on the catalog, but brought in Brown to be the efficiency man, challenging their knowledge. - Hannah Holstrom
-Here it shows the negative results on trying to focus on efficiency without fully understanding the nature of the craft. - Izzy Ellenberger
+**Here it shows the negative results on trying to focus on efficiency without fully understanding the nature of the craft.** - Izzy Ellenberger
 This story was interesting because it showed how Taylorism and efficiency at trying to create large volume of items in a shorter time could not work with everything.  Despite the fact that the canoes were drying faster, true craft would have had them more effective and safe.  The fact that more than half of their orders were returned were proof of this. - David Y.