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'All a Matter of Timing': Workplace Restructuring and Cultural Change in the NSW Railways and Tramways Priorto 1921

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  • Taksa, L.

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The following discussion presents an alternate strategy for evaluating how F.W. Taylor's managerial innovations affected Australian workers during the second decade of teh twentieth century. This is no straightforward task. In the first place, there is little agreement about the nature, degree and long-term significance of scientific management ideology among those scholars who have studied its transmission in these terms.

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  • Taksa, L., 1996. "'All a Matter of Timing': Workplace Restructuring and Cultural Change in the NSW Railways and Tramways Priorto 1921," Papers 106, The University of New South Wales. Department of Industrial Relations..
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:nswair:106
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    Keywords

    AUSTRALIA ; RAILWAYS ; LABOUR;
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    JEL classification:

    • N77 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Africa; Oceania
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation

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