Further Reading
- Frederick Winslow Taylor: A Memorial Volume, New York: Taylor Society, 1920, 108 p. (Contains addresses delivered at Taylor's funeral and at a memorial meeting of the Taylor Society.)
- Copley, Frank Barkley, Frederick W. Taylor: Father of Scientific Management, Vol. 2, New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1923, 472 p. (Comprehensive biography of Taylor.)
- Downs, Robert B., "Efficiency Expert: Frederick Winslow Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management," in Molders of the Modern Mind: 111 Books that Shaped Western Civilization, pp. 347-350, New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1961. (Surveys Taylor's influence on modern culture.)
- Hagen, Robert P., "Frederick Taylor's Challenge to Management: 'Is There a Better Way?'" SAM Advanced Management Journal 53, No. 2 (Spring 1988): 45-8. (Provides an overview of Taylor's objectives and argues that Taylorism is still relevant in the workplace.)
- Hathaway, H. K., ed., "Tributes to Frederick W. Taylor," Transactions 37 (1915): 1459-1496. (Contains personal and professional memorials to Taylor and his work.)
- Kakar, Sudhir, Frederick Taylor: A Study in Personality and Innovation, Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press, 1970, 221 p. (Scholarly biography of Taylor and the development of his theories.)
- Kanigel, Robert, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency, New York: Viking, 1997, 675 p. (Comprehensive biographical and theoretical study of Taylor.)
- Layton, Edwin T., Jr., "Measuring the Unmeasurable: Scientific Management and Reform," in The Revolt of the Engineers. Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession, pp. 134-53, Cleveland and London: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971. (Discusses the social and professional implications of scientific management on engineers.)
- Masur, Gerhard, "The Social Fabric," in Prophets of Yesterday. Studies in European Culture, 1890-1914, pp. 353-410, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. (Analyzes social and political trends in the early twentieth century, focusing on Taylorism, feminism, the youth movement, and socialism.)
- Nelson, Daniel, Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management, Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1980, 259 p. (Investigates the development and impact of scientific management.)
- Thompson, C. Bertrand, The Taylor System of Scientific Management, Easton: Hive Publishing Company, 1974, 175 p. (Originally published in 1917, provides a report on the status of scientific management in the workplace.)
- Wrege, Charles D., "Taylor's Pig-Tale: A Historical Analysis of Frederick W. Taylor's Pig-iron Experiments," Academy of Management Journal 17, No. 1 (March 1974): 6-27. (Provides evidence suggesting that Taylor's study of the loading of pig-iron at the Bethlehem Iron Company was fictionalized.)
- Wrege, Charles D., and Greenwood, Ronald G., Frederick W. Taylor, The Father of Scientific Management: Myth and Reality, Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1991, 286 p. (Presents recently uncovered information on Taylor's life and works.)
- Wrege, Charles D., and Stotka, Anne Marie, "Cooke Creates a Classic: The Story behind F. W. Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management," The Academy of Management Review 3, No. 4 (October 1978): 736-49. (Alleges that Taylor liberally used the ideas first set out in an unpublished manuscript by Morris L. Cooke to write his book The Principles of Scientific Management.)
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