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Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford

By Martha Banta

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0226037010, 9780226037011
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23203744 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
431\452
Library
Internet Archive
Time added
2023-07-06 14:37:25

Description

Scientific management: technology spawned it, Frederick Winslow Taylor championed it, Thorstein Veblen dissected it, Henry Ford implemented it. By the turn of the century, practical visionaries prided themselves on having arrived at "the one best way" both to increase industrial productivity and to regulate human behavior. Martha Banta takes a close look at texts ranging from mail order catalogs and popular romances to the works of Henry Adams and Nathanael West to trace the effects of the efficiency craze on the full fabric of American culture.

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