Module 1: Introduction The goal is to place the contributions of Frederick Winslow Taylor in context, the industrial revolution, and appreciate the force of their proposals. The industrial revolution is so complex and rich in events which, in reality, it is possible to identify several industrial revolutions, or different stages of a great process. At least three: First Industrial Revolution: 1750-1870. Top of the era of machines, steam is the main source of energy and produces a structural change in the world from the agricultural era to the industry. Second Industrial Revolution: 1870-1956. Improvement of the machine age. Electricity is the main source of energy. It provides mass education, more sophisticated methods and organization. Third Industrial Revolution: 1956 to date. Top of the systems age, it is called post-industrial society of knowledge, technology, etc ‘new machines arise increasingly sophisticated, with the computer symbol. New forms of energy. Module 2: First Industrial Revolution Before the Industrial Revolution, most goods were produced by artisans organized into guilds, which jealously guarded secrets of the trade. They applied generalization in the sense that we understand it today: a person doing all the activities necessary to make a pair of shoes or clothing. These artisans fought the industrialization and could stand for many years with a loyal clientele. Undoubtedly they were not workers in the factories, but peasants who came in waves to the emerging cities. Valdaliso and Lopez explains: ‘The truth is that despite its advantages, the diffusion of the factory system was slow and uneven. The craft workshops and domestic industry coexisted with the factory system, often as a complement. In the cradle of the industrial revolution, around 1840, the factory was the most important organizational model in the textile, iron and steel and machine building, but domestic industry and craft workshops dominated the garment industry, the manufacture of weapons , watches, knives and other products’. While corporations were in constant expansion, the division of labor was the organization that adopted scheme. Beyond the physical growth, companies had the advantage of overcrowding: millions and millions of identical products. How did this form of industrialization”Much has been written about the poor environmental conditions in much of the factories of two centuries ago. Without wishing to accept at present, it is worth noting that without the industry, the fate of most of the workers would have been … death. For many centuries mankind asolo the scourge of hunger (even rivaling closely with massive pests and diseases) and industrialization have been allowed today banished from most of the planet. Consider that two centuries ago most people were illiterate and that there was a workplace culture, because most workers came from the agricultural world. It was so clear that it was necessary to facilitate the most of every task. In the first industrial revolution, when the company was confounded with the owner, it was thought that its purpose was the obtaining of profit, its only function was that of a machine to produce profits for their creator. The symbol of the industry in this period was a ‘clock’. Module 3: Second industrial revolution also called modern administration. The second industrial revolution had for its symbol the assembly line, as so often we have seen that there are automobiles, an endless chain that drives a car that will turn ‘arming’ to go through modules that add some elements.