Book

The Principles of Scientific Management

Frederick Winslow Taylor

1911

Harper & Brothers

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Workers pausing their labor to look at the camera from their stations at various machines and workbenches.

How Middle Management Made the Modern World

What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives?

by Henry Snow via Literary Hub on May 12, 2026

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Industry at Night, by Horatio C. Forjohn, 1940.

Weary of Work

When factories created a population of tired workers, a new frontier in fatigue studies was born.

by Emily K. Abel via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 28, 2021

Amazon worker depicted as a cog in a machine.

Life Under the Algorithm

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

by Gabriel Winant via The New Republic on December 4, 2019

Workers punching the clock at a factory

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.

by Caitlin C. Rosenthal via Boston Review on August 17, 2018

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