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Stealing Fire From the Gods: Interview with Amelia Davenport
Amelia Davenport, November 24, 2019
Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods
Amelia Davenport, November 19, 2019
Amelia Davenport argues for leftist organizers to reclaim the ideas of Taylor's Scientific Management, making a broader argument for the relevance of cybernetics, cultural revolution in the workers' movement, and a Promethean vision of socialism. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Listen to an interview with the author here. Read Article.
"Taylor's System and Organization" by Nadezhda Krupskaya
Renato Flores, February 5, 2020
Translation by Mark Alexandrovich, introduction by Renato Flores. Read Article.
A Critical History of Management Thought
Jean Allen, May 8, 2020
Can capitalist management thought provide solutions to the problems of the socialist movement? Jean Allen urges doubt and skepticism in this critical review of Morgan Witzel’s A History Of Management Thought. Read Article.
Ending the Eternal Present: A Historical Materialist Account of the 1970s
Connor Harney, October 17, 2020
The 1970s were a time of turmoil and transition. Connor Harney gives a Marxist account of this pivotal decade. Read Article.
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.
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.