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The Red Taylorist The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov.
This biography traces the adult life, works and relationships of the Taylorist, Walter Polakov, focusing on his socialist scientific management, his ideals and dreams, and how these were constrained by conventionality in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2020.
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| Colección: | Frontiers of Management History Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Life of Walter Nicholas Polakov
- Perspectives of Scientific Management
- Biography
- Biography in the History of Management Thought
- Sources for a Biography
- Outline of the Book
- Chapter 1-The Russian Engineer Comes to New York, 1905-1915
- Introduction
- Arrival
- The Context: New York City in Early Twentieth Century
- Efficiency and Scientific Management in the Progressive Era
- Frederick Winslow Taylor and Close Associates
- Harrington Emerson
- Henry Laurence Gantt
- Morris Llewellyn Cooke
- Charles Day of Day and Zimmerman
- Polakov, Young Engineer, 1907-1915
- Research and Writing, 1910-1915
- "Power Plant Betterment"
- "Task Setting for Firemen"
- Broader Developments to 1915 and the Impact of World War I
- Private Life: 1910s: The Curious Stories of Catherine and Antoinette
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2-The Engineers Should Rule
- Taylor Society and the New Machine, 1915-1920
- Introduction
- Overview
- Context: New York and Environs, 1915-1920
- Scientific Management and the Taylor Society (TS)
- Drury: "Scientific Management and Progress"
- Polakov and the Taylor Society
- "Planning Power Plant Work" BTS January 1917
- Beyond ASME and the TS: The New Machine and The Rand School
- The New Machine
- The Rand School
- The Red Scare and Palmer Raids
- Polakov, 1919-1920
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3-Two Books for the 1920s
- Introduction
- Context
- The 1920s
- Walter Polakov in the 1920s
- Mastering Power Production (MPP)
- Man and His Affairs
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4-Taking the Gantt Chart to the Soviet Union and a Roller Coaster Return, 1928-1937
- Context: Eastern US
- Into the Depression
- Polakov in Later 1920s
- Walter Polakov Goes to the USSR
- Arriving Back from Soviet Union
- Polakov on the Soviet Union
- Difficulties in Getting Employment
- 1930s
- Polakov
- Other Publications in the 1930s
- The Power Age
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5-The Scientific Manager Joins the Union and Is Harried by the FBI, 1937-1948
- Introduction
- Context
- Polakov and UMW, 1937-1940
- The Precursors of Surveillance: The FBI and the Dies Committee in the 1930s
- Surveillance of Polakov
- Polakov and The United Mine Workers, 1942-1946
- Polakov and the FBI, 1947-1948
- 1947-1948 "Free as the Breeze"?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6-Conclusion
- Scientific Management and the Red Taylorist
- Concluding remarks
- Bibliography
- Part 1: The Works of Walter Polakov
- Part 2: Primary Sources from Archives
- Part 3: General Bibliography
- Index