Dave Rose

Excellent Book - explores the relationship between the method of production - now known as Fordism - impacts upon how individuals are dis-empowered and de-skilled. Interesting that this process continues - now including the professions. At one time the Craftsman would have bean the master of all of the process, from start to finish - known why each element was important, and how it fitted into producing the completed item. With Fordism, the process is split into ever smaller chunks, with each worker or team of workers only being able to complete their own tasks - knowledge of how to complete other elements of the production is not necessary - neither is how the task in hand fits into the whole - or even what the whole is. So power is concentrated with the centralisation of knowledge - and with power comes rewards and positional goods.