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Activity
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: Human Machines

For Students 9th - 10th
An excerpt from efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management that describes how to make a human work like a machine; painter Thomas Anshutz's The Ironworkers' Noontime that suggests the cost of...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Frederick Winslow Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page profile of influential innovator, Frederick Winslow Taylor, whose vision and ideas devised the system of scientific management that helped to increase performance in the workplace.