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https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/
@Enalys precisely!
Neo - #Taylorism it is...
There we go:
"Woolworths said it was engaging with Victoria Police over the alleged blockade."
And in this whole wretched ABC "news" article, not one word about the composition of today's picket line. Pretty heavy journalism there. But they did manage to include a bunch of Woolworths talking points.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/woolworths-industrial-action-victoria/104697608
Comparing and contrasting the
- Today's dominant paradigm stems from
the 2nd Industrial revolution
of
the late 19th century
from Part 2, with
- The new paradigm fit for complexity
#Taylorism
#Fordism
#PostTaylorism
#ComplexityThinking
#SoftwareDevelopment
#LightweightMethods
#NewParadigm
#NewPhisolophy
#WaysOfWorking
#Management
#Leadership
#Agile
#PostAgile
#Agility
#Complexity
A new philosophy of work, management and leadership is born from innovative ideas and practices in different fields, professions and industries. A paradigm shift that goes beyond Fordism and Taylorism.
=> Video Short Part 3: The new paradigm beyond Fordism and Taylorism
#Taylorism
#Fordism
#PostTaylorism
#ComplexityThinking
#LightweightMethods
#NewParadigm
#NewPhisolophy
#Agile
#PostAgile
#Agility
#Complexity
A new philosophy of work, management and leadership is born from innovative ideas and practices in different fields, professions and industries. A paradigm…
I really like the analysis in this podcast of how #TheToyotaProductionSystem is more efficient overall than #Taylorism because it optimizes labour value time for the entire system rather than for each individual worker. It's a great example of how #marxism offers abstractions over economics that demystify the process of production.
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fromalpha2omega/episodes/2024-10-03T12_00_00-07_00
This week we have the first of a two-parter with my co-author Donal O’Coisdealbha on the Toyota Production System, and its implications for socialism. Donal has recently started a blog for those interested in the TPS and such topics as statistical process control, control systems engineering, operations research and management science, called 'The Office For Control Over Results'. (https://theofficeforcontroloverresults.wordpress.com/). If you’d like to find out more about the book and how you could help support us in the project, head on over to theclasslesssocietyinmotion.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega
Ben Affleck got PBS to cover up the fact that an unnamed-in-the-article ancestor was a slave owner. I wonder if it was Thomas Affleck, whose publication The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book was a major influence on the use of the pushing system which, through unspeakable violence, allowed cotton planters to rapidly and continually increase the productivity of their slaves.
Thomas Affleck's work figures prominently in Caitlin Rosenthal's breakthrough work Accounting for Slavery, which traces the origin of modern management techniques, including Taylorism, back to methods employed on cotton plantations.
#BenAffleck #ThomasAffleck #Slavery #Cotton #PushingSystem #Plantations #Capitalism #Management #Taylorism #CaitlinRosenthal #AccountingForSlavery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Affleck_(planter)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Plantation_Record_and_Account_Book
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Kevin Karhan 
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