The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilisation

by Elton Mayo

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415175326
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/29/1998
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elton Mayo Professor of Industrial Research, Harvard Business School.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Science and Society; Chapter 1 The Seamy Side of Progress; Chapter 2 The Rabble Hypothesis and its corollary, the State Absolute; Part 2 The Clinical Approach; Chapter 3 The First Inquiry; Chapter 4 Hawthorne and the Western Electric Company; Chapter 5 Absenteeism and Labour Turnover; Chapter 6 1Edith Cavell; appendixI The Political Problem (May 10th and 11th, 1947); Chapter 7 The Modernization of a Primitive Community; Chapter 8 Change and Its Social ConsequencesappendixII Studies of the Department of Industrial Research Graduate School of Business Administration Harvard University, Professor George F. F. Lombard;