During the Industrial Revolution, the United States was expanding under the influence of massive corporations, where the owners were few and the laborers maintaining the means of production were many. An economic disparity between the capitalist and the proletariat became a pressing issue in the 20th century. Frederick Winslow Taylor addresses the benefits of scientific management and its ability to adapt to the changing industrial culture of the United States, a system capable of closing the gap between social classes and ultimately improve the American economy. However, Taylor’s essay applies to a mechanized society while ignoring the physical and psychological limits of the average human. The success of the corporation is not feasible without the labor of many workers: in other words, the capitalist cannot exist without the proletariat. Taylor claims …show more content…
With higher wages, he should be able to afford more goods that would support him and possibly his family. The interests of the worker and the owner will become one once this condition is met. The worker will want to invest more hours into the company to earn his pay, while the owner will be accumulating more revenue to the pay the worker. The employer can only increase the salaries if he chooses to do so. In Andrew Carnegie’s essay, Popular Illusions About Trusts, he calls upon other monopolists, such as himself, to disseminate charity to those who cannot afford it. One of his suggestions included a library, which was ironic because the working class (which was comprised of individuals in poverty) consisted of people that had no use of books. Several families resided in one home, could barely afford the clothes on their backs, and were impoverished. Carnegie, like Taylor, do have interests that may relate to the working class of America, but they seem to fail to recognize the true issues stifling the