National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: Human Machines
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...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: The New Housekeeping
An essay that urges women to bring the principles of scientific management found within industrial America into the home and housework.
PBS
Pbs: Ford Installs First Moving Assembly Line
A look at the history of the assembly line discusses how the use of this tool was initiated by Henry Ford in his Automobile plant.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Frederick Winslow Taylor
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.
Other
University of St. Francis: Frederick Winslow Taylor
Biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor that includes information about his childhood as well as his adult accomplishments.
Other
Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor
Good biography of Frederick Taylor, author of "The Principles of Scientific Management." Includes links to other sites and great pictures.