Hi Ned
Nothing really to add here, except to point that I think most historians do
accept that "Taylorism" preceded Taylor in many ways (gauging and the
"American System" contained many elements of Taylorist labor management for
example) and possibly adding labor history to your list of literatures that
archaeologists might look at.

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>>Subject: workplace archaeology
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>>First, let me say that I do not accept traditional historians'
>>emphasis on Taylorism as a turning-point in workplace history. Taylor
>>was a good salesman, but his product had been around a long time. In
>>the gunpowder and charcoal iron industries, to name but two, the
>>revolution was old hat by the time Taylor was out of short pants.


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>>There is a crying need for archaeologists of all sorts, not just
>>industrial archaeologists, to involve themselves in other
>>disciplines, which might include genealogy, historical geography,
>>economic history, and history of technology.  We produce a whole
>>literature that touches on these disciplines, yet our output tends to
>>be missed in their research.
>>Ned Heite  ([log in to unmask])
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