Gentrification in East London Hi, this is a part of my writing about Tech City in London. I tried to write as precisely as I could. Ironically, once new creative entrepreneurs agglomerate in a relatively cheap place for their work, the rent upsurges. According to research firm GfK in 2013, rents in Tech City is up to £40 per sq ft, and a single desk can be as much as £400 a month. This number is never considered as attractive, comparing with surroundings in other part of London; rent in Croydon, which is the newly speculated IT district, is between £15 and £20 per sq ft, and the average £20-30 per sq ft of Shepherd’s Bush and White City. ‘Last.fm’, which was mentioned by David Cameron in his Tech City Scheme as an ideal start-up, was kicked out from their small office converted from an old bedroom house, that was in a situation of demolition for the replacement with luxurious student housing for wealthy overseas students. This gentrification could be accelerated by Cameron’s hosting transnational corporation’s investment. For those who an office is essential, the cheaper rent means the more budget in R&D so that enables the further growth. Paradoxically speaking, the policy to promote start-ups is putting them under pressure.

What is Taylorism? I'm writing the first draft of my essay at the moment. This is a part of it. :) I tried to write as precise as much I can. Thank you. First of all, to know how creative industry has been risen, it is necessary to compare the early industry. Over the world Industrial Revolution in eighteen century, economic efficiency and labour productivity were the most considerable index for mass production companies such as Ford. In the period from the 1890s and the 1910s, Taylorism was a prevalent view to improve productivity in the industrial process. An american mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor, who hugely influenced on industrialisation of the world, claimed the most efficient way to improve productivity by allocating the most optimised labour quota for each employees, throughout observation on the workers in steel mill owned by himself, and published all his research into the book ‘The Principles Of Scientific Management’(1911). His point of view that maximised fragmentation in a process of the production enables a large scale of well-operating mechanical business is based on the belief that only scientific management governed by rules and laws can control unqualified mass workers. Therefore, the employees in a factory were not needed to be creative, but to provide their physical labour, only maximally limited number of managers in a relatively high position like Taylor himself were required creativity within a mass production system. This subordinate relationship between labourers and a factory resulted in a loss of humanity that workers are merely being a part of the system.