1997, ISBN: 0670864021

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780670864027], [PU: NY etc~. 1997. Viking Press], Jacket, black & silver decorative (spine) 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cove… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780670864027], [PU: NY etc~. 1997. Viking Press], Jacket, black & silver decorative (spine) 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xi +675p. + illustrations credits. acknowledgments. notes. select bibliography. index. 16 pages of glossy b&w photo illustrations. history of science. technology. labor history. economics. industrial revolution. biography. taylorism. fordismo. ~"In the past man has been first. In the future the System will be first," predicted Frederick Winslow Taylor, the first efficiency expert and model for all the stopwatch clicking engineers who stalk the factories and offices of the industrial world. Taylor influenced Ford's assembly line and Lenin's Soviet Russia. Management guru Peter Drucker has ranked him with Freud and Darwin as a maker of the modern world. His ceaseless quest for "the one best way" changed the very texture of twentieth~century life. In 1874, eighteen~year~old Iaylor abandoned his wealthy family's plans for him to attend Harvard, and instead went to work as a lowly apprentice in a Philadelphia machine shop, shuttling between the manicured hedges of his family's home and the hot, cussing, dirty world of the shop floor. As he rose through the ranks of management, he began the time~and~motion studies for which he would become famous, and forged his industrial philosophy, Scientific Management. To organized labor, Taylor was a slave~driver. To the bosses, he was an eccentric who raised wages while ruling the factory floor with a stopwatch. To himself, he was a misunderstood visionary who, under the banner of Science, would confer prosperity on all and abolish the old class hatreds. To millions today who feel they give up too much to their jobs, Taylor is the source of that fierce, unholy obsession with "efficiency" that marks modern life. The assembly line, the layout of our kitchens, the ways our libraries, fastfood restaurants, and even our churches are organized all owe much to this driven man, who broke every job into its parts, sliced and trimmed and timed them, and remolded what was left into the work of the twentieth century. Evoking a time when the industrial world was young, new, and exciting, when the sun streamed through great factory windows and filtered through the smoke of the shop floor, Robert Kanigel's epochal biography recounts the life of the man who taught us not to stop and smell the roses, and whose compulsions eerily foreshadowed how we live and work today., Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780670864027

Viking Pr, Gebundene Ausgabe, 675 Seiten, Publiziert: 1997-05-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 2.3 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1740, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Ingenieurwissenschaften, Fachbücher… Mehr…

Viking Pr, Gebundene Ausgabe, 675 Seiten, Publiziert: 1997-05-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 2.3 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1740, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Ingenieurwissenschaften, Fachbücher, Kategorien, Bücher, Ingenieurwissenschaft & Technik, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Viking Pr, 1997<

1997, ISBN: 0670864021

[EAN: 9780670864027], [SC: 9.69], [PU: Viking Adult], Books