3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British novelist who wrote Mary Barton, North and South, Wives and Daughters, and a biography of Charlotte Brontë — depicting the industrial north of England and the clash between industrial capitalism and traditional values with the sympathy born of living in Manchester.
American mechanical engineer who developed Scientific Management — the first systematic theory of workplace productivity — through time-and-motion studies, task standardization, and performance-based pay — whose ideas transformed industrial production and were applied worldwide.
Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel following Margaret Hale from the soft rural south of England to the industrial north — her encounter with mill workers, strikes, and the industrialist John Thornton — one of the great Victorian industrial novels and a romance.