Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

vi. PREFACE All books so far published refer to the movement in America only. A student of Efficiency Methods is advised to read first and foremost Dr. F. W. Taylor’s “ Shop Management ” (the later edition, quoted throughout this text, was published in 1911), and his “ Principles of Scientific Management ” ; also Mr. H. L. Gantt’s “ Work, Wages, and Profits,” and “ Industrial Leadership,” and Mr. F. B. Gilbreth’s “ Motion Study,” “ Fatigue Study,” and other books. Some of Mr. Harrington Emerson’s writings should certainly be read to get his different and interesting point of view, but his two books on Efficiency are unfortunately very diffuse and discursive. It is not at present very easy to obtain these American works ; but readers in London should know that a collection of the relevant books and periodicals is being made at the London School of Economics Library, Clare Market, W.C., and that almost all the American periodicals mentioned in the text are to be found in the Patent Office Library, as well as some of the books. The Engineer- ing Magazine (U.S.A.) may indeed be said to be the organ of Scientific Management, and several im- portant works have appeared in it as serials. Industrial Engineering takes very much the same attitude. The American Machinist and Machinery have printed a good deal more criticism.