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Walter Polakov and the Hidden History of Socialist Scientific Management
Amelia Davenport, November 10, 2020
Walter Polakov had a combined passion for two seemingly contradictory ideas: scientific management and socialism. How did these two combine? Amelia Davenport interviews Diana Kelly, author of The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov to bring light to this little known part of US history. Read Article.
Materialist History or Critical History: A Reply to Jean Allen
Amelia Davenport, January 6, 2021
Amelia Davenport responds to Jean Allen's A Critical History of Management Thought, continuing the debate on scientific management. Read Article.
The Collective Mind
Jean Allen, April 22, 2021
Jean Allen responds to Amelia Davenport, continuing the debate on scientific management.[note]This was written before Davenport's Materialist History or Critical History? for the ebook From Tide to Wave: Base Building and Communist Politics. - Editor[/note] Read Article.
Science and Democratic Management
Amelia Davenport, June 13, 2023
Amelia Davenport provides a brief overview of left-wing approaches to scientific management and argues that this field of inquiry should be embraced by socialist labor militants today. Read Article.