Abstract
If Charlie Chaplin could speak, he would probably have complained about the working conditions of the working-class at the beginning of the XX th century. He is, in his movie "Modern Times", making fun about the new organization of work in factories. Sure enough, two American engineers and company creators developed a new conception of manual work almost at the same time, in order to improve profitability. Today we are going to speak about the consequences of Fordism and Taylorism, their theories. Before the application of the Fordism and Taylorism, the workers were left to themselves. They had no training and had to learn on their own the specificities of their job. They discovered it alone, and no one showed them the appropriate movement. The first consequence of this self-training was that the worker had the feeling of being left apart, or abandoned. The second and more annoying consequence of this self-training was the low productivity that stemmed from it. Workers did not perform the most efficient movement in most cases, because nobody had taken the time to analyze the job and try to deduct the best way to achieve it.
