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National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: Human Machines

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An excerpt from efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management that describes how to make a human work like a machine; painter Thomas Anshutz's The Ironworkers' Noontime that suggests the cost of turning humans into machines; and a film clip that shows humans and machines dangerously interacting.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)