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MOTION STUDY A method for increasing the efficiency of the workman
by GILBRETH, Frank B. Introduction by Robert Thurston Kent
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket (assume none issued)
- Seller
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1911. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket (assume none issued). Dark gilt-lettered cloth, clean with just hints of rubbing to extremities. xxiii+116+36 (pub. catalogue)+ (2, two book notices), includes the tipped in pub. notice at front regarding pricing on book, 44 ills. inc 4 pp. block on brick-laying (ills 24-42); only marking is a 3 line erasable pencil inscription top front end-paper, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. An excellent copy of the first edition of this now rare founding text of industrial psychology which launched the, not uncontroversial, 'time and motion study' approach.13 cm x 19.5 cm
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012421
- Title
- MOTION STUDY A method for increasing the efficiency of the workman
- Author
- GILBRETH, Frank B. Introduction by Robert Thurston Kent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (assume none issued)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- psychology industrial psychology industrial management economics factories
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Douglas Books
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent
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