Harlow S. Person
Harlow Stafford Person (1875-1955) was an economist, manager, and key figure in the Taylor Society.[1]
Academic career
Person received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan in 1902.
After graduating from Michigan, Person joined the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Following his successful promotion of scientific management at the school, he became the school's first professor of management.[2]
Taylor Society
While a long-standing supporter of F.W. Taylor, Person objected to Taylor's antagonistic approach to workers and labor unions.[2]
From 1919, Person was secretary of the Taylor Society, which by the end of the 1920s was one of the most progressive business organisations of the period.[2][3] It promoted cooperation with organized labor.[4][5]
Publications
- Harlow S. Person, 'What is the Taylor Society?' Bulletin of the Taylor Society (December 1922)
- Harlow S. Person, Scientific Management in American Industry (Harper & Brothers, 1929) online at Archive.org
Notes and references
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1955/11/11/archives/tribute-to-harlow-stafford-person.html?_r=0
- 1 2 3 Daniel Nelson, 'The Transformation of University Business Education' in A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management Since Taylor (1992) "Link" (PDF).
- ↑ Carlos E. Pabon, Regulating Capitalism: the Taylor Society and Political Economy in the Inter-War Period (PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1992) PDF online
- ↑ Harlow S. Person, 'What is the Taylor Society?' Bulletin of the Taylor Society (December 1922)
- ↑ Nyland, Chris, Bruce, Kyle and Burns, Prue, 'Taylorism, the International Labour Organization, and the Genesis and Diffusion of Codetermination' Organization Studies (2014)
Further reading
- Daniel Nelson, 'The Transformation of University Business Education' in A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management Since Taylor (1992) "Link" (PDF).
- Samuel Haber, Efficiency and Uplift: Scientific Management in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1964)
- Milton Nadworny, Scientific Management and the Unions: 1900- 1932. A Historical Analysis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955)
- Carlos E. Pabon, Regulating Capitalism: the Taylor Society and Political Economy in the Inter-War Period (PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1992) PDF online