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Taylorism, the early-twentieth-century industrial efficiency movement pioneered by Frederick Taylor, has had a profound effect on industrialized societies. █████████ ████████████ █████████ ████ ███████ ██████████ ███ ███ ██ █████████ ██ ████ ████████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ████████ ███████ ████ ██████ ██ ████ █████ ████████ ████ ███████ ███ ███████████ ███████ ███████ █████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ███ █████████ █████ ██ █████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ██████████ ███ ███████
Summary
Industrialized societies have been greatly influenced by the efficiency movement of Taylorism. Greater efficiency has increased productivity, which in turn has increased in most workers’ standards of living. At the same time, Taylorism has caused these workers’ jobs to become repetitive and uncreative, making the work less inherently worthwhile.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Some industrial developments can both benefit and harm workers in different ways.
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This answer is unsupported. The stimulus never mentions a situation where efficiency measures actually decreased efficiency. It only discusses Taylorism, which did increase efficiency.
b
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This answer is strongly supported. Taylorism benefitted workers financially by increasing most workers’ standards of living. However, at the same time, Taylorism led to their work having less inherent worth.
c
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This answer is unsupported. The stimulus does not tell us anything about the effort workers put into their jobs. We cannot assume that, just because jobs have become routine and repetitive, workers put in less effort.
d
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This answer is unsupported. The stimulus does not give us any information about how much workers value their jobs. We also only know about a single method to increase standards of living, and we can't generalize to say something is always likely.
e
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This answer is unsupported. The stimulus does not give us any information to determine what type of workers are more efficient than other types.