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Efficiency and Uplift Scientific Management in the Progressive Era 1890-1920
Efficiency and Uplift Scientific Management in the Progressive Era 18901920 Author:Samuel Haber The "progressive era", 1890-1920, gave rise to an efficiency craze in which "efficient" and "good" came close to meaning the same thing. At the heart of the craze was Frederick W. Taylor's system of scientific management, one of the first comprehensive programs of industrial management in the United States. In T... more »aylor's world, laws of management, were, like the laws of nature, impartial, above class prejudice, and definable according to the methods of science.
Haber's critical examination of this period has much to say about typical American attitudes toward business, politics, and the idea of equality.« less