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Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford

Martha Banta
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Description:Scientific management: technology spawned it, Frederick Winslow Taylor championed it, Thorstein Veblen dissected it, Henry Ford implemented it. By the turn of the century, practical visionaries prided themselves on having arrived at "the one best way" both to increase industrial productivity and to regulate human behavior. Martha Banta takes a close look at texts ranging from mail order catalogs and popular romances to the works of Henry Adams and Nathanael West to trace the effects of the efficiency craze on the full fabric of American culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford. To get started finding Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
446
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Release
1995
ISBN
0226037029

Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford

Martha Banta
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Description: Scientific management: technology spawned it, Frederick Winslow Taylor championed it, Thorstein Veblen dissected it, Henry Ford implemented it. By the turn of the century, practical visionaries prided themselves on having arrived at "the one best way" both to increase industrial productivity and to regulate human behavior. Martha Banta takes a close look at texts ranging from mail order catalogs and popular romances to the works of Henry Adams and Nathanael West to trace the effects of the efficiency craze on the full fabric of American culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford. To get started finding Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
446
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Release
1995
ISBN
0226037029

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