Lenin and Taylor

Prior to the October Revolution, the socialist parties of Europe opposed Taylorism as the most modern and ruthless form of capitalist exploitation. In 1913 and 1914, Lenin devoted two articles to this “scientific method of extortion of sweat,” which carried the “enslavement of humankind to the machine” to an extreme. “As a result of this method three times more labor is squeezed out of the worker in the same nine to ten hour workday; all the worker's strength is unmercifully roused, everybit of nervous and muscle energy is drained from the slave laborer at three times the speed.... Advances in the spheres of technology and science in capitalist society are but advances in the art of extortion of sweat.”

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• Krasnaya Zvezda

  Open Access•Pedro Ramos De Toledo•2019

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• Labour Process and Marxist Perspectives on Employee Participation

  Miguel Martinez Lucio•Oxford handbook of participation…•2010

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• The shchekino method and the struggle to raise labour productivity in Soviet industry

  Peter Rutland•Soviet Studies•1984

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• Soviet norm determination in theory and practice, 1917–1941

  Lewis H Siegelbaum•Soviet Studies•1984

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• Why Is There No Taylorism in the Soviet Union

  Don Van Atta•Comparative Politics•1986

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• The Proletarian Ethic and Soviet Industrialization

  Open Access•Timothy W Luke•American Political Science Review•1983

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• On the Labor Process and Productive Efficiency

  Open Access•Benedito Rodrigues De Moraes-Neto•Rethinking Marxism•2013

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• Lion Murard and Patrick Zylberman, editors, Le Soldat du travail. Paris

  Open Access•Don Reid•International Labor and…•1980

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