Index
The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov
ISBN: 978-1-78769-986-1, eISBN: 978-1-78769-985-4
Publication date: 15 June 2020
This content is currently only available as a PDF
Citation
Kelly, D. (2020), "Index", The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov (Frontiers of Management History), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 171-174. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-985-420201008
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited
INDEX
Index
Accounting
, 70, 74–75
Accidents (coal mining)
, 120–123
Causes
, 136–139
Costs
, 119, 136–138
Alford, LP
, 18–19, 23, 54, 74, 76
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
, 34, 115, 117
American Labor Monthly
, 78
American Locomotive Company (ALCo)
, 22
American Machinist
, 74, 96
American Relief Administration (ARA)
, 8, 61–62
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
, 7, 39
Americanization
, 29, 34
Amtorg
, 89, 92, 113, 142
Bacon, F
, 28, 86
Barth, C
, 6, 16, 42, 47
Bebel, A
, 46, 65
Bedeian, A
, 9
Biography (historical)
, 4–7, 145–146, 147–149, 152–153
Bolsheviks, perceptions of
, 102
Brandeis, LD
, 36
Braverman, H
, 3, 36–37
Bruce, K
, 4, 38, 48
Brussilova, Barbara
, 93–94
Bulletin of the Taylor Society
, 7, 33, 107
Bureau of Investigation – see FBI
Bureau of Municipal Research 3
, 36
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
, 106, 107
Clark, W
, 62, 76, 141
Coal
consumption
, 14, 22
mining
, 69, 108
processing
, 24, 67
Coburn, F
, 40
Cole, GDH
, 108
Commons, JR
, 29, 34, 38, 117
Conference of Industrial Organisations – see Congress
Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO)
, 117, 118, 120, 127–128, 132, 143
Cooke, ML
, 20–21, 51, 87, 90, 103–104
Copley, FB
, 6, 18
Coughlin, C (Father)
, 106
Covici Friede
, 109
Day, C
, 16, 21
Day and Zimmerman
, 8, 21
Depression – see Great Depression
Dies committee
, 123, 125, 127, 129, 143
Dies, M
, 117, 124
Dilling, E
, 129, 143
Donner, R
, 128–129
Dresden
, 2, 12
Drury, HB
, 39–45
Dzerzhinsky, F
, 88
Eastern Rates case
, 36
Efficiency
craze
, 15
Efficiency Society
, 17
Eighteenth Brumaire of Napoleon III (Marx)
, 1
Einstein, A
, 58, 77
Ellis Island
, 1, 30, 59
Emerson, H
, 6, 16, 17–18, 90, 93–94
death of
, 95
Fairfax Station, VA
, 129, 131
Fatigue
, 13, 63, 71, 122
FDR – see Roosevelt, FD
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
, 8, 86, 123–125
and Board of Economic Warfare
, 135
on Polakov’s books
, 132–133
on Polakov’s income and tax
, 133
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
, 117
Ferguson, C
, 48, 49, 51
Fisher, HH
, 91–92
Gantt Charts
, 47, 63, 89–90, 92, 96–97, 111
Gantt Medal
, 87
Gantt, HL
, 7, 16, 18–20, 41–42
and New Machine
, 48–52
death
, 53–54
Gastev, A
, 89
Geyer Bill
, 119–120
Gilbreth, F
, 6, 28
Gilbreth, L
, 6
Gitlow, B
, 129
Goldman, E
, 59
Gorky, M
, 61
Gramsci, A
, 3, 36
Great Depression
, 84–86, 123–124
unemployment for engineers
, 102–103
Grundrisse (Marx)
, 71
Habits of industry
, 99
Haig, R
, 43
Harper’s Magazine
, 97–98
Harvard Business Review
, 101–102
Hathaway, HK
, 6, 42
Hoover, H
, 60–61
Hoover, JE
, 124, 127, 131–132, 135
Hoover Institution
, 8, 91
Hopkins, H
, 105, 125
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
, 115
Dies Committee
, 124–125
Hoxie, R
, 16
Hyphenated Americans
, 34
Ideology
, 149–150
Immigration, US
, 14, 69
Keyser, C
, 76, 80
Kipling, R
, 45
Königlich-Sächsisches Polytechnikum
, 12
Korzybski, A
, 58, 60, 76, 107, 107–108, 123, 139, 141
Kuvin, C, see Polakov, Catherine
Kuvin, L
, 60
Labor process
, 37
Labor theory of value
, 73, 75
Leverhulme, Lord
, 71, 73
Lewis, JLL
, 117–118, 119–120, 123, 141
Lilienthal, DE
, 105–106
Lincoln Memorial
, 86
Lincoln, A
, 73, 79, 84
Linguistics
, 76, 101
Little Steel Strike
, 116
Lowman, MG
, 8, 106–107, 143
Lusk Committee
, 52–53
Luxemburg, R
, 12
Macintyre, S
, 153
Mail cover
, 128
Maintenance management
, 24, 69–70
Management, history of 6
, 152
Man and His Affairs from an Engineering Point of View (MAHA)
, 76–81, 82
Marx, and theory of money
, 75
Marx, K
, 1, 71, 78–79
Mastering Power Production
, 64–75
Maintenance management
, 69–70
Mayne, DD
, 125–126, 127
Meaning of Meaning, The
, 77
Mechanization
, 114, 117, 118–119, 121, 141
Morgan, AE
, 104–105
Moscow
, 2, 12–13, 90, 94–95
Murray, J (Senator)
, 120–121
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
, 8, 95
Polakov’s OPF
, 22, 107
National Safety Council (NSC)
, 122, 136
Nativism
, 53, 54
New Deal
, 84–85, 106–107
and anti-New Dealers
, 128
planning in
, 85
New Machine, The
, 48–52, 60, 146
New York City
1900s
, 13–14, 28–29
1910s
, 34–35
Nyland, C
, 4, 59, 68, 71, 108
Occupational hygiene, see occupational safety
Occupational safety
, 68–69, 119–123
employers and
, 122–123, 137
in unorganised mines
, 134
Palmer Raids 1919
, 32, 53
Parke, C
, 152
Pearson, Drew
, 125–126
Pelley, WD
, 116, 125
Pennsylvania Light and Power Company
, 157
Perkins, F
, 120, 121
Person, HS
, 6, 35
Planning Power Plant Work
, 46–47
Polakov, Antoinette
, 30–31, 59
Polakov, Barbara
, 87, 93, 141
death of
, 139
Polakov, Catherine
, 30–31, 60, 76, 87
Polakov, WN,
and statistics
, 138
arrives in US
, 11–13
as Marxist
, 45, 67–68, 71, 73, 109
as consultant
, 53, 59, 62
as Red Taylorist
, 151–152
at UMW
, 117–123, 134–139, 146
divorce from Antoinette
, 7, 31, 59
early work in US
, 22ff
engineering studies in Dresden
, 12
FBI file
, 126–34, 139–143
Foremanship (1921)
, 62–63
health 1940s
, 123
joins Taylor Society
, 39
limp
, 12
Making Work Fascinating
, 63–64
marriage to Barbara
, 62, 87, 90
marriage to Yvonne (Savon)
, 142
multi-lingual
, 13
on capitalism
, 66
on FW Taylor
, 63, 111
on Machine Age
, 109–112
on man as animal
, 78
on engineers
, 80
on scientific management
, 27–28, 67–68
on Wall Street Crash
, 90
on waste
, 25, 74, 81
Organized Sabotage
, 54
retired by UMW
, 140, 141
Taylor Society
, 44–46
unemployment 1931–3
, 102–104
work in USSR
, 90–95, 99–100
writings on USSR
, 96–102
Polakov, Yvonne (Savon) see Riggles, Yvonne
Polyakova-Khvostova, Aline (Anna)
, 12
Power Age, The
, 84, 109–112
Power Plant Betterment
, 23–25
Power Plant Management
, 2, 84, 133, 151
Prevention of Industrial Conditions Hazardous to the Health of Employees subcommittee
, 120
Professional societies
, 27–28, 39
Progressivism
, 14–15
Rand School
, 29, 52–53, 146
Recession 1920–21
, 33
Record keeping
, 74
Recovery Through Revolution
, 108, 113
Red Scare 1919–1920
, 32, 53, 72
Reserve army of labor
, 70
Richman, IB
, 139–140
Riggles, Yvonne (Savon)
, 141
Roe, J
, 105
Roosevelt, FD
, 84–85, 124
Rural electrification
, 103
Russell, W
, 1, 22, 30–31
Russia
19th century
, 12
Revolution
, 55–59
Russia – famine
, 60
Sabotage
, 54
Sacco-Vanzetti trials
, 58
Schachter, HL
, 4, 36, 38, 68
Scientific management 3–4
, 27, 38–39, 141–151
and planning
, 111, 119
and socialism
, 65
ideology of
, 149–150
in USSR
, 89, 98–99
negative views of
, 36–38
Second New Deal
, 115
Semantics
, 102
Shenhav, Y
, 39, 96
Shock Brigades (USSR)
, 92
Silver Shirts
, 116, 124, 125
Smith Act
, 124
Society of Industrial Engineers 93
, 103, 105, 108
Society to Promote the Science of Management, See Taylor Society
Stalin, J
, 92
Sunlike Illuminating Company
, 86–87
Sunlike Lamp
, 139
Surveillance
, 85, 115, 125, 141, 143, 146–147
Swanson, T
, 97–101, 105
Task and Bonus pay, see Two rate wages
Task Setting for Firemen
, 26–28
Taylorism, see scientific management
Taylor Society
, 35–39, 150–151
Discussions in
, 44
Taylor, FW
, 1, 3–4, 7, 15–20, 28, 35–39, 41–42, 65, 111
Tchaikovsky, PI
, 12
Technical Alliance
, 50, 51, 60, 146
Technocracy
, 48, 51, 80, 84, 103, 105, 107
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
, 104–106, 117, 146
Thompson, S
, 43
Time-binding
, 76, 78–80, 109
Time-Binding Club
, 31, 60, 77
Tugwell, R
, 85
Tula (Russia)
, 13, 92
Two-rate wages
, 63, 72–3, 99–100
UMW – Engineering Department
, 118
United Mine Workers of America (UMW)
, 115, 118
District #28
, 134–135
United States
Coal mining
, 121–123
economy 1920s
, 57–59, 83
perceptions of USSR
, 101–102
Poll Tax proposed
, 119
suspicions in 1930s
, 117
trade with USSR
, 101
US Fuel Administration
, 64–65
USSR
foreign engineers in
, 87–89
party faithful rewards
, 92
USSR, Five year Plan
, 92
Valentine, R
, 45–46
Van Kleeck, M
, 6, 108, 150
Veblen, T
, 48, 50–51, 111–112
Vesenhka (VSKHa, USSR)
, 83, 88, 113
Wagner Act
, 115, 117
Washington Merry-Go-Round
, 125–126
Waste in Industry inquiry
, 1921, 60
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
, 106, 116, 117
Willits, J
, 41
Webb, S
, 71
What is to Be Done?
, 126
Winstead, R
, 8, 135
Witkin, Z
, 80–81
Wolf, RB
, 43, 76
Wood, C
, 50, 76
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
, 84, 107, 114, 116, 125–126
World War I
, 28–30
World War II
, 115–116
Wren, D
, 9, 113
Zinn, H
, 3, 9, 33, 37
- Prelims
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Russian Engineer Comes to New York, 1905–1915
- Chapter 2: The Engineers Should Rule – Taylor Society and the New Machine, 1915–1920
- Chapter 3: Two Books for the 1920s
- Chapter 4: Taking the Gantt Chart to the Soviet Union and a Roller Coaster Return, 1928–1937
- Chapter 5: The Scientific Manager Joins the Union and Is Harried by the FBI, 1937–1948
- Chapter 6: Conclusion
- References
- Index