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

by Martha Banta

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226037010

ISBN13:9780226037011

Release Date:July 1993

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:446 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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