A Nook of Photos

Photographer unknown. “Orbit Method”. Frederick W. Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth studied assembly and movement—afer all, ‘wasted’ movement equals “wasted’ time (and money)—this photo is from a film they made of a woman working with a  flashing wired ring attached to her hands or the impliment she is using in order to show her movements made during the assembly of a particular item. Of course they found she made ‘wasted’ movements. They went on to devise ways of minimizing the ‘waste’, dehumanizing production, reducing workers to objects as though they (and we) were the machines. The higher value being placed on the object (commodity), not the worker.