Title Manufacturing knowledge : a history of the Hawthorne experiments / Richard Gillespie

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Description x, 282 pages ; 24 cm Series Studies in economic history and policy Studies in economic history and policy : the United States in the twentieth century Studies in economic history and policy. Contents Machine derived contents note: Editors' preface -- Glossary of manuscript collections -- Introduction -- 1. The management of work -- 2. The T room -- 3. Interpreting the relay test -- 4. Elton Mayo and the research network -- 5. The psychopathology of industrial life -- 6. The anthropology of work -- 7. Manufacturing the Hawthorne experiments -- 8. Human relations in industry -- 9. Human relations in the social sciences -- Conclusion: manufacturing knowledge -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography of the Hawthorne experiments -- Index Analysis Organisational psychology History United States Organisational psychology History United States Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-276) and index Subject Industrial management -- Research -- United States -- Case studies. LC no. 90025639 ISBN 0521403588

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