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Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution
Yehouda Shenhav
- 01 Jan 1999
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TL;DR: A survey of the engineering-management literature can be found in this paper, with a focus on the Prophets of Management: American Engineers between Industrial Growth and Labor Unrest and Contested Rationality: Disturbances, Controversies and Opposition to Management Systems.
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Abstract: Introduction 1. Prophets of Management: American Engineers between Industrial Growth and Labor Unrest 2. Engineering Rationality: 'System Shall Replace Chaos' 3. Colonizing the Mind: The Translation of Systematization to the Management of Organizations 4. Contested Rationality: Disturbances, Controversies, and Opposition to Management Systems 5. Engineers, Labor Politics, and American Exceptionalism before 1900 6. Taming the Shrew: Systems and Labor Politics during the Progressive Period 7. Deus ex Machina: Concluding Remarks Appendix Description of the Engineering-Management Literature
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