Author: Elton Mayo
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Elton Mayo
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259915829
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Excerpt from The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization This is the second in a series of books by Professor Elton Mayo, now planned to be three in number. Jointly they will present Selected aspects of over a quarter century of clinical research in industry. This research has been carried on in an effort to get a better and more fundamental understanding of human relations - that most neglected of subjects - and how to improve them. These books present also Mayo's mature reflections based on long self-training and clinical experience with individuals in a great variety of social environments before he began the study of men and women in industry: AS a result of his earlier work, when he turned his attention to industry he brought 'to his studies, zfirst, intimate, habitual, intuitive familiarity vrith things; secondly, systematic knowledge of things; and thirdly, a useful way of thinking about things, which the late Lawrence J. Henderson considered the basic necessities for objective clinical study of a new field. For about Menty years Mayo has been senior professor in the Department of Industrial Research in the Harvard Business School. The research conducted by this Department, by him and his co-workers in industry and in the School, has always been firsthand, clinical studies-of concrete industrial situations. The history of this twenty-year program has been a history of steadily increasing insight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Elton Mayo
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415175326
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

Author: Elton Mayo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317834380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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First published in 1998. This is Volume IX of eleven of the Economic and Society series. Including an appendix on the political problem, this book includes the thoughts of Elton Mayo, seen initially as a modern social thinker who challenges the basic assumptions of the practical world of industry

Author: Elton Mayo
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135210586
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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First published in 1923, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertrand Russell's works on modern society. It offers a rare glimpse into often-ignored subtleties of his political thought and in it he argues that industrialism is a threat to human freedom, since it is fundamentally linked with nationalism. His proposal for one government for the whole world as the ultimate solution, along with his argument that the global village and prevailing political democracy should be its eventual results, is both provocative and thoroughly engaging.

Author: Theodore John Kaczynski
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Languages : en
Pages : 126

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"It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness." Theodore John Kaczynski (1942-) or also known as the Unabomber, is an Americandomestic terrorist and anarchist who moved to a remote cabin in 1971. The cabin lackedelectricity or running water, there he lived as a recluse while learning how to be self-sufficient. He began his bombing campaign in 1978 after witnessing the destruction ofthe wilderness surrounding his cabin.

Author: Walter Rauschenbusch
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Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Herbert Marcuse
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113443880X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of contemporary Western societies, capitalist and communist.' Yet it also expressed the hopes of a radical philosopher that human freedom and happiness could be greatly expanded beyond the regimented thought and behaviour prevalent in established society. For those who held the reigns of power Marcuse's call to arms threatened civilization to its very core. For many others however, it represented a freedom hitherto unimaginable.

Author: Jerome R. Ravetz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000159841
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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Science is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of the academic science of the prewar period into the industrialized science of the present. Traditional theories of science are now widely recognized as obsolete. In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems. He demonstrates the role of choice and value judgment, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. Ravetz's new introductory essay is a masterful statement of how our understanding of science has evolved over the last two decades.