Shop management - Exemplaire de H.L. Hollingworth

First trade edition, and first edition under this title; the text originally appeared in 1903 in the bulletin of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (a 143-page article, pp. 1337-1480).

Preface by Henry Robinson Towne.

A few pencil reading marks in the margins alongside some paragraphs.

Publisher's full red cloth, smooth spine very slightly darkened, spine ends slightly sunken, a small snag at the head of the lower board.

Provenance: from the library of H.L. Hollingworth, then at Columbia University in New York, with his autograph ownership inscription in black ink on an endpaper.

Harry Levi Hollingworth was a leading theorist of managerial psychology and the organisation of work. He was also one of the pioneers in the study of consumer behaviour in response to advertising. In many of his writings, he referred to the organisation of labour and the division of tasks devised by Frederick Winslow Taylor.