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Shop Management.: With an introduction by Henry R. Towne.
by TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers,, 1911. First edition in book form, first printing, following the success of Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management, published earlier the same year, and presenting the same ideas as a handbook, written "in such a way that everything in it should be intelligible to anyone with a high school education" (preface). Shop Management first appeared as a study within the journal Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1903. Together with the Principles it outlines the core of what would become known as Taylorism, the entirely rationalized organization of labour for the highest production. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, device to front cover in blind. Folding plate, illustrations and diagrams in the text. Minimal soiling and rubbing to cloth, small ink "S" to front free endpaper; a square, clean copy.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 159403
- Title
- Shop Management.
- Author
- TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers,
- Date Published
- 1911
Terms of Sale
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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