Shop Management
Handbook
By: Frederick Winslow Taylor
Date: 1911
Source: Taylor, Frederick Winslow. Shop Management. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911, 49–56.
About the Author: Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915), a Philadelphia-born engineer and inventor, is best known for helping modernize industrial management techniques. Taylor was obsessively organized and constantly looked for ways to bring order and discipline to his affairs. As a young engineer, he began a series of studies designed to improve operations in his own plants. By the early 1890s, he had started working as an independent consultant showing manufacturing companies how to improve operations.
Introduction
The development of technology, increased productive capacity, and sophisticated business organizations after the Civil War (1861–1865) were not accompanied by a comparable improvement in the...
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