Posts tagged “work”

Four workers against a Gilbreth motion-study grid, a mason, a weaver, a line worker pulling the andon cord and a writer, each hand tracing a light trail that forks at every choice; the chosen trails rise and weave together overhead.

Work and Workflow

Alan Forester-Kaiser · October 14, 2026

A bricklayer in 1890 laying a course of common brick stooped to the pile at his feet, picked up a brick, turned it over to find the better face, tapped it to knock off loose mortar, and carried it up […]

social liberty personal sovereignty workflow andon therbligs scientific management

A frieze of four panels in ancient black-figure style: hunter-gatherer by a hut, agrarian hoeing by the house, industrialist workers walking to a clocked factory, informationalist working at home online.

How View of Work Shapes Law and Land

Alan Forester-Kaiser · October 10, 2026

From 1803 until 1890, a French worker who wanted to change jobs had to carry a small booklet, the livret d'ouvrier. Each employer wrote in it the date the worker was hired and the date they left, and a worker […]

law social liberty decentralization welfare state transit paternalism