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	Scientific management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scientific management or Taylorism is the name of the approach to management and industrial and organizational psychology initiated by Frederick Winslow Taylor in his 1911 monograph The Principles of Scientific Management.
		However, Taylor's theories were clearly at the root of a global revival in theories of scientific management in the latter two decades of the 20th century, under the moniker of 'corporate reengineering'.
		Historian Thomas Hughes (Hughes 2004) has detailed the way in which the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s enthusiastically embraced Fordism and Taylorism, importing American experts in both fields as well as American engineering firms to build parts of its new industrial infrastructure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scientific_management (1136 words)

	Goethe-Institut Current Writing in German - Non-Fiction - Spring 04
		British historian Frederick Taylor's recent examination of the circumstances and events leading up to the destruction of Dresden near the end of World War II portrays the devastating attack in a much different light than recent scholarship on the subject, namely Jörg Friedrich's Der Brand.
		Taylor does not, by any means, slight the terrible toll the incendiary bombs had on the population of the city.
		Frederick Taylor studied history and modern languages at Oxford University and Sussex University, specializing in the history of the extreme right in Germany during the early years of the 20th century.
	www.goethe.de /ins/us/prj/cwg/shc/nft/s04/en206765.htm (321 words)

	Bombing of Dresden in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taylor observes that this propaganda was quite effective, as it not only influenced attitudes in neutral countries at the time but even reached the British House of Commons when Richard Stokes quoted information from the German Press Agency (controlled by the Propaganda Ministry).
		The historian Max Hastings said in an article subtitled 'the Allied Bombing of Dresden' "I believe it is wrong to describe strategic bombing as a 'war crime', for this might be held to suggest some moral equivalence with the deeds of the Nazis.
		The absence of a direct military presence in the centre of the city, and the devastation known to be caused by firebombing, is regarded by supporters of the war crime position as establishing their case on a prima facie basis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden (7244 words)

	"Dresden: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1945" by Frederick Taylor - Salon
		Taylor writes that not long after the war's end, and certainly before that, "Dresden became one of the most well-placed pawns on [a] virtual propaganda chessboard." There is the real Dresden and the Dresden of legend.
		Taylor makes what is by all appearances a good-faith effort to excavate the former by digging through the many layers of the latter.
		Twenty-five thousand people killed is still a massacre, and Taylor's description of the bleak aftermath is a nightmare of corpses lying in heaps on a landscape blasted and burned into lunar rubble.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2004/03/01/dresden/index.html (900 words)

	DRESDEN
		Taylor discusses Dresden's history as the medieval capital of Saxony, on through the unification of Germany and the rise of Nazism.
		Taylor provides data to show that in the grand scheme of things the February 13 attack on Dresden is not much worse than attacks on other German cities.
		Taylor also discusses the impact of the bombing campaign on the German war effort, and argues that the air campaign was more affective than other studies indicate.
	www.486th.org /Photos/Misc/dresden.htm (1320 words)

	David Boyle
		When Frederick Taylor went to work at Midvale, the skilled craftsman, diurect heir to the medieval craft system, was the respected heart of any factory.
		Taylor's contention was that workers generally kept their employers in the dark about how hard they can work.
		Taylor fell foul of management in-fighting, and they were already angry with him for all his sackings.
	www.david-boyle.co.uk /history/frederickwinslowtaylor.html (2268 words)

	Frederick Taylor In The Classroom: Standardized Testing And Scientific Management
		Frederick W. Taylor was an efficiency expert: the first modern efficiency expert in world history.
		After Taylor’s death in 1914, scientific management spread throughout the world, and it has influenced everything from advice to housewives on how to do their chores to how Japanese (and later American) cars have been made.
		The best example of Frederick Taylor’s ideas at work in education today are high-stakes standardized tests -- tests which have a significant effect on funding for schools and the careers of individual students.
	radicalpedagogy.icaap.org /content/issue3_2/rees.html (3315 words)

	TOQ-Peter B. Gemma - Taylor/Irving BR-Vol 5 No 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Historians and military strategists have long debated whether the 750-year-old metropolis known as “Florence on the Elbe” was a legitimate enemy target, and if the number of non-combatant casualties resulting from the attack can be justified.
		Frederick Taylor writes that the bombing raid was necessary because Dresden was a “vital site of manufacturing, communications and services of great importance to [Germany’s] war effort.” On the other hand, David Irving asserts, “At the time of the air attack in 1945, the city’s military significance was minimal.”
		Taylor devotes five extraordinary chapters of his book to describe the attack, mixing dramatic first-person anecdotes of the bombers with those of the bombed: A British airman recollects “we had no qualms about the raid”; a Canadian veteran recalls “The sky lit-up [from] the horrendous inferno on the ground....
	theoccidentalquarterly.com /vol5no1/pg-dresden.html (1384 words)

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		Taylor: Yes it is. Some people mistake the attempt at rational analysis of a historical event for a celebration of it.
		Taylor: The whole "Holocaust of bombs" thing has been around on far-right Web sites for years and is only now emerging into the NPD's antics in the (Saxony state government).
		Taylor: There are some people in Britain who still think the bombing of Dresden was a terrific idea and that (the UK) could do no wrong in World War II, but the majority has a much more balanced view.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7934887&postID=111648554769206337 (1784 words)

	"Dresden: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1945" by Frederick Taylor - Salon
		Taylor doesn't deny that the question of whether it was worth stooping to such tactics remains a painful one.
		One factor that contributed to the catastrophe was a widespread lack of preparedness in Dresden: There were few decent shelters and citizens didn't understand the importance of extinguishing the fires started by incendiary devices as soon as possible.
		Enough of them were genuinely blameless (most of Taylor's sources among the survivors, for example, were children at the time) for the attack to shade into the realm of atrocity.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2004/03/01/dresden/index1.html (1369 words)

	Taylor, Frederick Winslow on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		TAYLOR, FREDERICK WINSLOW [Taylor, Frederick Winslow] 1856-1915, American industrial engineer, b.
		Taylor to TQM: a century of manufacturing systems.
		Taylorism, John R. Commons, and the Hoxie report.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/t/taylor-f1w1.asp (217 words)

	Studies in Battle Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Frederick himself was exhausted by his long days in the saddle and the pressure of holding his state together against overwhelming odds.
		Frederick's mistakes suggest a larger point in the assessment of the king of Prussia as a battle commander.
		Many historians and buffs have postulated that superior generalship was the key factor that enabled the Confederacy to offset the Union's advantages in men and materiel, General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia would certainly seem to validate such a claim, but west of the Appalachian Mountains the story was very different.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/army/csi-battles.htm (21404 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Frederick Taylor has taken the story of that dreadful night, and woven a complex and erudite history around the event.
		Taylor shows that Dresden was an important military, political and industrial centre, contributing significantly to the Nazi war effort.
		Taylor also puts the US/British bombing raid in context, showing how it was a major part of their war effort, even though it was less significant than the Soviet Union's heroic struggles.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747570841 (1508 words)

	An Overview of Management Theory
		In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Frederick Taylor was decrying the " awkward, inefficient, or ill-directed movements of men" as a national loss.
		Taylor consistently sought to overthrow management "by rule of thumb" and replace it with actual timed observations leading to "the one best" practice.
		Taylor's strongest positive legacy was the concept of breaking a complex task down in to a number of small subtasks, and optimizing the performance of the subtasks.
	www.kernsanalysis.com /sjsu/ise250/history.htm (1935 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Dresden Church Gets British Cross in WWII Gesture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Many British historians have criticized Friedrich for what they call a lopsided narrative that fails to reflect that Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was first to launch airstrikes on civilians in Warsaw, Rotterdam, Belgrade, London and Coventry.
		Most recently, a new book by British historian Frederick Taylor, "Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945," contends that as Germany's seventh largest city it was a legitimate strategic target with an industrial center contributing to the war effort.
		Taylor argues the number of dead -- frequently cited in excess of 100,000 -- was greatly exaggerated by Hitler's propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels, and that the actual death toll was likely between 25,000 and 40,000.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/06/22/dresden_church_gets_british_cross_in_wwii_gesture?mode=PF (629 words)

	Educate Yourself - Scientific Management
		Taylor, born in 1856, was the first "efficiency expert," as postulated in his 1911 book, "Principles of Scientific Management," which spelled out the new discipline of the same name.
		Taylor quit his job in the steel mills in 1901 and set to work on promoting his management system, aided by a number of associates including Morris L. Cooke.
		As an aside, Frederick Taylor was one of the first lecturers at the new Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, founded in 1908 and the first to offer a Masters in Business Administration.
	www.buyandhold.com /bh/en/education/history/2003/scientific_management.html (816 words)

	MHQ Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Frederick Taylor, a British historian, seeks to reveal the true story of the Dresden raid.
		The controversial British historian David Irving wrote in The Destruction of Dresden in 1963 that U.S. North American P-51 fighters strafed crowds of refugees huddled by the banks of the Elbe River.
		Taylor believes that it was, because Dresden was an industrial target, and both sides had routinely engaged in area bombing as the war went on.
	www.thehistorynet.com /mhq/reviews/mhqreviewwinter06-1 (826 words)

	TAYLOR Coat of Arms, Family Crest
		During the Middle Ages, the surname of TAYLOR was was used in Scotland.
		While the patronymic and metronymic surnames, which are derived from the name of the father and mother respectively, are the most common form of a hereditary surname in Scotland, occupational surnames also emerged during the late Middle Ages.
		It is the harshness of its history and the ruggedness of its land that have shaped its proud inhabitants.
	www.houseofnames.com /coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=TAYLOR (1139 words)

	women99.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Frederick was born in 1908 in Gallitzin, P.A. She attended George Washington University where she received her MA in International Law (Uglow 214).
		Frederick got her first break into the radio business in 1948, when ABC hired her as a war correspondent.
		Frederick retired from the news business in 1981 and sadly passed away at the age of 84.
	www.jcu.edu /communications/women99.htm (16605 words)

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		As Frederick Taylor documents in Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945, this was decidedly not the case.
		As Taylor notes, the 1942 Dresden Yearbook trumpeted the city's stature as "one of the foremost industrial locations of the Reich." Equally important as the contribution of matériel was Dresden's strategic role as a major transportation hub, particularly toward the end of the war.
		"Only a handful suffered swift execution." Taylor is equally adept at dispelling the other half-truths and misconceptions surrounding Dresden's role at the end of the war and the results of the bombing, particularly the notion that the casualty figures numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0604/0604dresden.txt (710 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Dresden - Frederick Taylor
		Historians who deny it are accused by many survivors of "mocking" the dead and the maimed, and even of falling for an Anglo-American "conspiracy" to hide the truth.
		Taylor concludes that the "fairest" estimates lie between 25,000 and 40,000.
		Taylor (on his book jacket) has Three major points he says he is going to set out to debunk...the inflated casualty figures, alleged strafing and debunking the myth that Dresden was just an "Art" city w/no military value.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?p=383173 (8672 words)

	History On Trial: The New Criminologist on Irving's arrest
		This is not usually done on the TNC news desk, but on a personal note, I have spent the last 14 months researching historical revisionism and holocaust denial for a major upcoming project, and as a result have seen the destructive results denying the Holocaust can do.
		The rabid anti-Semitism and manipulation of evidence used by these “historians” to prove their ludicrous beliefs is an affront to all people with even a basic grip on reality.
		Frederick Taylor, the British historian, points out in his study of the bombing that on other occasions when British and American pilots engaged in strafing, they wrote about it in their reports.
	lipstadt.blogspot.com /2005/11/new-criminologist-on-irvings-arrest.html (826 words)

	History 363
		One historian has written, "Capitalism came to America on the first ships." In this section of the course, we shall discuss the role of business motives and institutions in the expansion of Europe and the settlement of what is now the United States.
		Frederick W. Taylor was a very peculiar man whose own idiosyncrasies and obsessions fit well with developments in business and American culture in the early twentieth century.
		Historians aren’t fortune-tellers and have no special tricks for predicting the future, but historical knowledge helps our understanding of the present.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~history/courses/fall2002/archive/syllabi/363.htm (1057 words)

	ASLH \| Awards
		Public historians, unaffiliated scholars, as well as faculty at academic institutions are encouraged to apply.
		Named after the late Kathryn T. Preyer, a distinguished historian of the law of early America known for her generosity to young legal historians, the program of Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars is designed to help legal historians at the beginning of their careers.
		Named for John Philip Reid, the prolific legal historian and founding member of the Society, and made possible by the generous contributions of his friends and colleagues, this is planned as an annual award for the best book published in English in any of the fields broadly defined as Anglo-American legal history.
	www.h-net.org /~law/ASLH/awards.htm (1916 words)

	Guillén, M.F.: The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist ...
		In The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical, Mauro Guillén recovers this history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management--one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture.
		Taylor and Ford had a signal influence on Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and on Le Corbusier and his Towards a New Architecture, the most important manifesto of modernist architecture.
		Combining the skills of the comparative historian with those of the detective, he follows his quarry around the globe, demonstrating the consistent connection between Taylorism and modernist architecture.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/8163.html (695 words)

	On An Overgrown Path: Dresden 1945 - London 2005
		British historian Frederick Taylorâs recent book Dresden, Tuesday 13th September 1945 has been accused of being no more than an apologia for the raids.
		Taylorâs thesis can be summed up in his own words, âDresden was the raid that went horribly right.â He justifies the plan to bomb by the fact that the city was a key communications, administrative and intelligence centre linking the Nazi eastern and western fronts.
		Frederick Taylor does not attempt to excuse the slaughter that resulted.
	theovergrownpath.blogspot.com /2005/07/dresden-1945-london-2005.html (1494 words)

	Roots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Starting in the 1880s, Frederick Taylor developed a method of "scientific management" that even today influences work design.
		One historian writes: "The productivity gains were enormous....[but] Living inside a machine ultimately leads to deep, inbred malaise and resentment, a thorough atrophying of creativity, and the propensity to sabotage" (Kleiner 66).
		During the early years of the 20th century, the social sciences began to emerge as recognized disciplines engaging in quantitative and qualitative research.
	www.soi.org /reading/change/roots.shtml (564 words)

	Tecnologias de la Comunicacion y Sociedad: Premisas fundamentales
		By contrast, other researchers such as the historian David Noble clearly show, through the case of automatically controlled machine tools, that there is no one best way, and that the effect of a technique cannot be understood without simultaneously studying its use and the choices made by its designers.
		As the Italian historian Gabriella Turnaturi notes: on the eve of the first world war, 'a slow and difficult process of unification of customs, culture and traditions took place through the learning of a common language in the obscurity of cinema halls' (Turnaturi, 1995).
		Withdrawal into the home, pointed out by historians of private life, was reflected mainly in the appearance of private musical life which adopted the piano as the main instrument.
	ticsoc.blogspot.com /2006/01/premisas-fundamentales.html (10662 words)

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