Taylorist ideas still pervade relatively modern industries; offshoring software development is one such example. The knowledge work is separated from the execut

Taylorist ideas still pervade relatively modern industries; offshoring software development is one such example. The knowledge work is separated from the execution. This split in management/development and the manual workforce was the main motivator behind the production line of the day. By moving the knowledge work upstairs, you could pay an unskilled workforce much less to execute the assembly.