“And so experts have been the missing link in our understanding of the special interpenetration of man and machine that has made the American Century, peculiarly American. We all know something about machines, but experts know everything—if not about machines, at least about a particular machine. We are thus weighted down by a heavy reliance of experts, with much of our time spent in search of the right expert in whom to place confidence for the repair of our mechanical problems” GovernmentEconomyExpertsTechnocracyMechanicalMachines And Man Book:Prophets of Order Source: Prophets of Order
“The smooth coordination of cooperative labor requires managers to “command in the name of capitalists” Here we find a form of wage labor, but of a special kind” PowerEconomyLaborManagementClassismCapitalistsNew ClassWage Labor Book:Prophets of Order Source: Prophets of Order
“Finally, the legitimization of the corporate holding company [1890] established a business structure that lessened the threat of competition by allowing for the elimination of competitors. The merger movement followed and horizontal combinations of productive capability reorganized industry into large blocks of corporate power.” CapitalismCompetitionMergers And AcquisitionsCorporate PowerHolding Company Book:Prophets of Order Source: Prophets of Order
“The point was made many times that scientific management benefitted workers not at all, perhaps most clearly by a short statement by John P. Frey, editor of the International Molders Journal and participant in a bipartisan survey of the claims of scientific management, 'If generally applied the craftsmen would pass out of existence, and the workers would become dependent for their existence upon the scanty and insignificant industrial knowledge and experience afforded them by their limited opportunities, regulated by those who in addition to their ownership of machinery, had also acquired possession of craft knowledge and the skilled workers’ methods.” CraftsmanshipScientific ManagementSkilled LaborTaylorismFrederick Taylor Book:Prophets of Order Source: Prophets of Order