# Scientific management [[Taylorism]]. > Taylor and his team promised to rationalize manufacture, rendering it more efficient and productive, by determining the “one best way” for every aspect of the work process > > – [[Breaking Things at Work]] > Scientific management, for all its pretensions, was less about determining ideal working methods and more about shattering this tremendous source of worker power. > > – [[Breaking Things at Work]] > Scientific management was, then, less a science of efficiency and more a political program for reshaping the worker as a pliant subject—what Taylor himself called “a complete mental revolution on the part of the workingmen … toward their work, toward their fellow men, and toward their employers.” > > – [[Breaking Things at Work]]