| Bibliography for
TAYLORISM AND BEYOND updated August 5, 1999 |
Thomas J. Misa
Department of Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago IL 60616 |
Table of Contents
| best biography | see also History of Engineering bibliography; electronic archive of F.W. Taylor collection at Stevens Tech, including searchable on-line archive. |
[At once a close study of the aborted introduction of Taylorism in one site ... and a sophisticated treatment of the social tensions engendered by "technical" change.]American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 1982. On the art of cutting metals--75 years later: a tribute to F.W. Taylor. New York, N.Y. (345 E. 47th St., New York 10017): ASME.
Banta, Martha. Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Breitbart, Eric. 1981. Clockwork (motion picture) The Taylor Project; 1 film reel (30 min.): sd., bw and col. ; 16mm.
[Based on the work of Frederick Winslow Taylor and his scientific management theories, this film shows how the principles were applied to industrial production. Producer, director, Eric Breitbart.]Copley, Frank Barkley. 1923. Frederick W. Taylor, father of scientific management. New York/London: Harper and Brothers.
Haber, Samuel. Efficiency and Uplift: Scientific Management in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 (New ed., U Chicago, 1973; orig. 1964).
Jordan, John M. 1994. Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Kakar, Sudhir. 1970. Frederick Taylor: a study in personality and innovation. Cambridge: MIT Press.
[entertaining psychobiography]Kanigel, Robert. 1997. The one best way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the enigma of efficiency. New York: Viking.
[popular biography by a gifted science writer; see book's prologue at Stevens Tech site]Layton, Edwin T. Jr., "Measuring the Unmeasurable: Scientific Management and Reform," chap. 6 in The Revolt of the Engineers (Johns Hopkins 1986; orig. Case Western U 1971).
Maier, Charles S. "Between Taylorism and Technocracy: European ideologies and the vision of industrial productivity in the 1920s," Journal of Contemporary History 5 #2 (1970): 27-61.
[The function of various efficiency doctrines derived from Taylorism as an "ideologies" for European politicians.]Mandel, Mike. Making good time: scientific management: the Gilbreths: photography and motion: futurism (Riverside: California Museum of Photography, 1989)
[Chronophotography]Merkle, Judith A. Management and ideology: the legacy of the international scientific management movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980)
Misa, Thomas J. 1995. A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
[See chapter 5 on Taylor's tool-steel experiments]Morman, Edward T. Efficiency, scientific management, and hospital standardization: an anthology of sources (New York: Garland, 1988)
Nelson, Daniel and Stuart Campbell, "Taylorism versus Welfare Work in American Industry: H. L. Gantt and the Bancrofts," Business History Review 46 (Spring 1972): 1-16.
Nelson, Daniel. 1992. A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor (Columbus: Ohio State University Press)
Nelson, Daniel. Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management (Madison: U Wisconsin, 1980).
[The best biography of Taylor.]Nelson, Daniel. Managers and Workers: Origins of the New Factory System in the United States, 1880-1920 (Madison: U Wisconsin 1975).
[Details on Taylorism's surprisingly small impact on 'population' of American factories.]Nelson, Daniel. "Taylorism and the Workers at Bethlehem Steel, 1898-1901" Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 101 (1977): 487-505.
Rose, Michael. Industrial Behaviour: Theoretical Development Since Taylor (Penguin, 1978).
Rudin, Bradley. "Industrial Betterment and Scientific Management as Social Control, 1890-1920," Berkeley J. Sociology 17 (1972-73).
Runeby, Nils. "Americanism, Taylorism and Social Integration," Scandinavian J History 3 1978 21-46.
Schachter, Hindy Lauer. 1989. Frederick Taylor and the public administration community: a reevaluation. Albany: SUNY Press.
Spender, J.-C. and Hugo J. Kijne (eds.). 1996. Scientific management: Frederick Winslow Taylor's gift to the world? Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Stabile, Donald R. "The Du Pont Experiments in Scientific Management: Efficiency and Safety, 1911-1919," Business History Review 61 (Autumn 1987): 365-86.
[Du Pont powder works' managers discovered direct relationship btw efficiency and safety--an issue Taylor had not considered. Two explosions hastened the firm's shift from efficiency to safety on eve of WWI expansion.]Taylor Society. 1920. Frederick Winslow Taylor; a memorial volume. New York: Taylor Society.
Taylor, Frederick W. 1911. Principles of Scientific Management [e-text]
Taylor Archive (at Stevens Institute of Technology)
Thompson, Clarence Bertrand (ed.). 1914. Scientific management: a collection of the more significant articles describing the Taylor system of management [878 pp.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
["Harvard business studies; v.1"]Waring, Stephen P. Taylorism transformed: scientific management theory since 1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991)
Wrege, Charles D. and Greenwood, Ronald G. Frederick W. Taylor, the father of scientific management: myth and reality (Homewood, Ill.: Business One Irwin, 1991)
Yates, JoAnne. Control through communication: the rise of system in American management (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)