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The Telloh tablets deal almost entirely with administration and business.
1960 Award Winner, The Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Series.
Not in OCLC. A rare offprint on child labor. Surveys child labor legislation in the UK, France, Germany, and Italy.
Chapters on introspection and self-criticism, shaping your personality, grading your personality, choosing your vocatio, estimation of self, traits of personality, classification of occupations, analysis of vocations, how to get a job, plan sheet by years.
Compiled under the direction of Butterworth, the US Commissioner of Patents, this sumptuously illustrates the American development of machinery and tools. Each page shows in multiple wood-engravings the evolution of a particular implement. 198 items are displayed in this manner, including advertising methods through book-binding & paper-ruling, brewing, fire-extinguishers, cigar-wrapper cutters, cigarette-making, coaches, distillation, ice-making, locomotives, looms, music-boxes, printing, railways, road-making, school furniture, telephones, tobacco-curing (with 5 other entries for tobacco), type-writers.
Her first book.
Contains sections on unethical behavior in government and the ethical posture of business & the professions.
A key book in the history of industrial psychology and efficiency management. Gilbreth, who had worked with Taylor, here sets forth the general principles first articulated in his groundbreaking 1909 book on bricklaying.
A self-taught economist who originally emigrated penniless to the USA in 1874, working as a weaver, Gunton argues here in his first book (and in many of his subsequent writings) that shorter working hours and an improved standard of living for workers would redound to the benefit of manufacturers by dint of the increased wants of laborers. Though pooh-poohed at the time, Gunton's "trickle-up" theory would in the 20th century become economic orthodoxy—at least after Henry Ford made millions doing it.
A home-study course with sections on time and motion study, the foreman's job, materials handling, etc.
Ehrenfreund 1926 #370.
Kress C.5249; Goldsmith #31444; Sabin #50149. An emigrant to the USA from Scotland, Montgomery was superintendent of the York Factories in Saco, Maine. He argues here that improved management techniques could by itself increase profits without further investment ("by committing the charge of their Factories to competent persons, immense savings might yet be effected, of which they seem in general not to be aware," p. viii).
Parker was Dean of the School of Business Administration, University of Washington, and Sometime Head of the Economics Department.Contains "Toward Understanding Labor Unrest;" "The Casual Laborer" [1st published in 1915 in Quarterly Journal of Economis as "The California Casual and His Revolt"]; "The I. W. W." [1st published in the November 1917 Atlantic Monthly]; "Motives in Economic Life;" Appendix: Foreword and Report on the Wheatland Hop Fields' Riot.
Bibliographs thousands of articles and books.
\hyne was Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the School of Social Service in the University of Oklahoma.
A nicely illustrated history of Italian merchants from the the medieval period on with chapters on the arts, politics, religion, and culture.
History of the Bullard Company in Connecticut, which made machine tools. Apparently never published in book form.
Preceded by a mimeographed version edited by the senior author.
Every entry is extensively annotated.
About industrial workers's aspirations and their relation to management.
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