Well, there's always these two graphs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Union_membership_in_us_1930-2010.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Effective_Corporate_Tax_Rate_1947-2011_v2.jpg -Pete On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Mike Spencer wrote: > > [email protected] wrote: > > > That's also about when ideas such as JustInTime supply chain > > management started coming in vogue, along with an increase in the > > use of contingency workers, several other changes along the same > > lines that have to do more with management than anything else. > > Ah, yes. Was that the period when the doctrine emerged, that proper > "managers" should be able to manage *anything*? That managers were in > some way disjoint from the substance and underlying mechanisms of the > thing managed? That 30 years experience in an industry (or any > endeavor) was irrelevant -- even orthogonal -- to management > principles and was justifiably upstaged by an MBA? > > I vaguely recall noticing (with scorn) that development but I was > living without electricity in the late 70s and busy paying off the > price (risibly tiny but significant for an artist) of my large, newly > acquired studio. So I can't peg the rise of that doctrine very > closely. > > Interestingly, it was roughly a decade later (1986) that the MIT > Commission on Industrial Productivity was struck [1] and 1989 when > their report, Made in America -- Regaining the Productive Edge, > appeared. Yet the referenced graph suggests that, at least from a > financial point of view, some event or mechanism had already brought > the problem well in hand before the stellar academic minds began their > study. Huh. > > > > - Mike > > [1] ...to address a decline in industrial performance perceived to be > so serious as to threaten the nation's economic future. > -- Preface to the book, 1989 > > -- > Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. > /V\ > [email protected] /( )\ > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
