Taylor's Pig-Tale: A Historical Analysis of Frederick W. Taylor's Pig-Iron Experiments.

Charles D. Wrege · Amedeo G. Perroni

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Frederick Taylor is cited as the father of scientific management. His account of the loading of pig-iron has been accepted virtually without question. An investigation of that story reveals it to b...

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