The approach emphasizing an increasing subtilization of management discourse on labor force control does not receive total support. While it is certain that, if we compare the postbureaucratic model of the new paradigm of management with Taylorism, such subtilization does exist, this process must be subject to some qualifications. In the nineteenth century, the discourse of authors like Owen and Montgomery presented clear elements of normative control, something that does not seem to be in consonance with the hypothesis of coercive control as the dominant form of the period. Besudes, the managerial ideologies that did not legitimize the social order of the time advocated the creation of exemplary communities to increase economic productivity. The fact that these were socialist attempts does not invalidate their relevance from the standpoint of administrative experimentation. The ideology of industrial betterment, which enjoyed wide diffusion at its time, also displayed a normative and subtle view of workforce control. Moreover, when we compare the discourse of the human relations ideology with systematic rationalism, its successor as a dominant ideology, it is difficult to ascertain whether the ineluctable tendency towards a refinement of control methods existed or if, in reality, a return to an earlier form of control (rational control) actually accurred. These reservations notwithstanding, this approach does not lack plausibility.
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