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

L. Taksa

Working Papers from The University of New South Wales. Department of Industrial Relations.

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: AUSTRALIA; RAILWAYS; LABOUR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M12 N77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 1996
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