Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each thinker to their diagnosis of modern work.
- Marx
- Weber
- Taylor
- Ritzer
- Scientific management: the stopwatch on the shop floor
- Rationalization: work ruled by calculation and rules
- Alienation: estranged from product, process, others, self
- McDonaldization: efficiency, calculability, predictability, control
Hints
- Trace one lineage of rationalisation through to the present.
- One thinker stands outside it, asking what it costs the worker.
Show the answer
- Marx → Alienation: estranged from product, process, others, self
- Weber → Rationalization: work ruled by calculation and rules
- Taylor → Scientific management: the stopwatch on the shop floor
- Ritzer → McDonaldization: efficiency, calculability, predictability, control
Why
One lineage: Weber’s rationalization, industrialized by Taylor, franchised by Ritzer, with Marx across the aisle asking what it does to the worker.
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