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Sinopsis
Explore the debate between scientific management and labor through the lens of an in‑depth, methodical study. This nonfiction work presents the aims, methods, and findings of a major investigation into how efficiency systems affect workers, managers, and society. It highlights both potential benefits and the real-world challenges of applying scientific management in practice.
Driven by hearings and extensive shop visits, the book lays out the competing claims of management experts and organized labor. It examines how time study, task setting, training, and pace relate to worker welfare and industrial democracy. The material is presented in a balanced, documentary style, with conclusions drawn from comprehensive evidence rather than rhetoric.
- Clear explanation of the investigation’s purpose, scope, and key questions
- Analysis of how scientific management appears in theory and in actual shops
- Critical examination of labor claims, trade union objections, and practical implications
- Appendices and a structured questionnaire illustrating the data‑gathering process
Ideal for readers seeking a historical, evidence‑based view of early 20th‑century industrial reform and its impact on workers and management alike.
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In making this study the writer has had no desire to uphold or to condemn scientific management or either party to the controversy concerning it. He has tried simply to discover hope of that a b interests of all concerned. He has endeavored thus to em -the possible benefits of scientific manage ment, its actual results thus far in practice, together with their causes, and its fundamental relations to labor welfare. This mode of treatment may give to particular portions of the study an air of partisanship. Fair conclusions, there fore, are to be based only on the study as a whole, and the unbiased reader will reserve judgments to the end.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The book here presented is based upon an investigation of scientific management in its relations to labor, made by the writer for the United States Commission on Industrial Relations. The investigation involved a study of scientific management shops designated, in the main, by Mr. Frederick W. Taylor, Mr. H. L. Gantt and Mr. Harrington Emerson, leaders of the movement. In this shop study, the investigator was assisted by Mr. Robert G. Valentine, Industrial Counselor, appointed by the Commission to represent employing management, and Mr. John P. Frey, Editor of the "International Molders' Journal," similarly appointed to represent labor. Both Mr. Valentine and Mr. Frey were in close touch with the writer during the course of the investigation and the preparation of the report to the Commission, and both attached their signatures to that document as well as to the conclusions which were presented with it. This monograph has also received their unqualified approval.
The discussion which follows is for the most part an attempt to test Mr. Taylor's claims respecting scientific management in its relations to labor, the claims of Mr. Gantt and Mr. Emerson being considered only in so far as they differ from those of Mr. Taylor. Justification for this mode of procedure is clearly set forth in the text.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book is a critical assessment of scientific management in its relations to labor, carefully examining the claims of scientific managers and the charges made by organized labor against them. The author puts the contrasting perspectives side by side for comparison and tests the veracity of both through real-world examples and data collected from extensive investigations. In addition to the analysis of scientific management's effects on workers, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the motivations and contradictions that define its proponents and critics. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781330824849_0
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