Manufacturing knowledge : a history of the Hawthorne experiments
Richard Gillespie raises fundamental questions about the nature of scientific knowledge, and about the assumptions and evidence that underpin debates about worker productivity.
Print Book, English, 1993, ©1991
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1993, ©1991
Case studies
x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521456432, 9780521403580, 0521456436, 0521403588
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Editors' preface
Glossary of manuscript collections
Introduction
The management of work
The T room
Interpreting the relay test
Elton Mayo and the research network
The psychopathology of industrial life
The anthropology of work
Manufacturing the Hawthorne experiments
Human relations in industry
Human relations in the social sciences
Conclusion: manufacturing knowledge
Acknowledgements
Bibliography of the Hawthorne experiments
Index