Au pays du taylorisme

Rare first edition. No copies located in U.S. libraries (not listed in WorldCat). 

Spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned, without seriousness.

First and apparently unique edition of this foundational text in the work of Henri de Man (1885-1953), Belgian socialist theorist, future chairman of the Belgian Labour Party and author of The Psychology of Socialism (1927; orig. Au-delà du marxisme). The volume is the direct outcome of his involvment in the official mission led in the United States in 1918 by the Belgian government to study the methods of scientific management as developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor. This study is thus the earliest critical assessment by the future neo-socialist of American industrial capitalism, and anticipates the principal themes that would shape De Man's subsequent thinking on the psychology of labour and the transcendence of economic Marxism. Published by the imprint of La Presse socialiste (which also printed the daily newspaper Le Peuple, official organ of the Belgian Labour Party founded in 1885) in what was in all likelihood a limited print run intended for distribution within the Belgian militant network.