Scientific Management, Systematic Management, and Labor, 1880–1915

1 January 1974

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Business History Review

Vol. 48 (4) , 479-500
https://doi.org/10.2307/3113537

Abstract

Offering a significant revision of prevailing views, Professor Nelson examines the actual implementation of scientific management in industry and finds that it bore only a superficial resemblance to the system described by Taylor and his disciples. Rather than a “partial solution of the labor problem,” the Taylor system was a comprehensive answer to the problems of factory coordination, a refinement and extension of the earlier ideas known as systematic management.

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