Harlow S. Person

Harlow Stafford Person (1875-1955) was an economist, manager, and key figure in the Taylor Society.[1]

Academic career

Person received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan in 1902.

After graduating from Michigan, Person joined the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Following his successful promotion of scientific management at the school, he became the school's first professor of management.[2]

Taylor Society

While a long-standing supporter of F.W. Taylor, Person objected to Taylor's antagonistic approach to workers and labor unions.[2]

From 1919, Person was secretary of the Taylor Society, which by the end of the 1920s was one of the most progressive business organisations of the period.[2][3] It promoted cooperation with organized labor.[4][5]

Publications

Notes and references

  1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1955/11/11/archives/tribute-to-harlow-stafford-person.html?_r=0
  2. ↑ Carlos E. Pabon, Regulating Capitalism: the Taylor Society and Political Economy in the Inter-War Period (PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1992) PDF online
  3. ↑ Harlow S. Person, 'What is the Taylor Society?' Bulletin of the Taylor Society (December 1922)
  4. ↑ Nyland, Chris, Bruce, Kyle and Burns, Prue, 'Taylorism, the International Labour Organization, and the Genesis and Diffusion of Codetermination' Organization Studies (2014)

Further reading

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