What Did Frederick Taylor Do to Help Cause the Decline

question 4

Multiple Choice

What did Frederick Taylor do to help cause the decline of skilled workers?

• A) He interviewed skilled employees and broke their processes into easy to learn parts.
• B) Taylor was hired by corporations to help them reduce the cost of labor and he did.
• C) He tested worker endurance by using experiments to determine how much they could work.
• D) Taylor wrote a series of newspaper editorials claiming that skilled workers wanted to block unskilled labor.

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