The classics

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1962). Strategy and structure: Chapters in the history of the american industrial enterprise. MIT Press.

Braverman, H. (1974). Labor and monopoly capital: The degradation of work in the twentieth century. Monthly Review Press.

Burns, T., & Stalker, G. M. (1961). The management of innovation. Tavistock Publications.

Emerson, H. (1912). The twelve principles of efficiency. The Engineering Magazine Co.

Gantt, H. L. (1910). Work, wages, and profits. The Engineering Magazine Co.

Gantt, H. L. (1919). Organizing for work. Harcourt, Brace and Howe.

Gilbreth, F. B., & Gilbreth, L. M. (1917). Applied motion study: A collection of papers on the efficient method to industrial preparedness. Sturgis & Walton.

Kanigel, R. (1997). The one best way: Frederick winslow taylor and the enigma of efficiency. Viking.

Mayo, E. (1933). The human problems of an industrial civilization. Macmillan.

Nadworny, M. J. (1955). Scientific management and the unions, 1900–1932. Business History Review.

Ohno, T. (1988). Toyota production system: Beyond large-scale production. Productivity Press.

Roethlisberger, F. J., & Dickson, W. J. (1939). Management and the worker. Harvard University Press.

Shingo, S. (1985). A revolution in manufacturing: The SMED system. Productivity Press.

Spear, S., & Bowen, H. K. (1999). Decoding the DNA of the toyota production system. Harvard Business Review, 77(5), 96–106.

Taylor, F. W. (1903). Shop management. Harper & Brothers.

Taylor, F. W. (1911). The principles of scientific management. Harper & Brothers.

Trist, E., & Bamforth, K. (1951). Some social and psychological consequences of the longwall method of coal-getting. Human Relations, 4(3), 3–38.

Womack, J. P., Jones, D. T., & Roos, D. (1990). The machine that changed the world. Harper Perennial.

Woodward, J. (1965). Industrial organization: Theory and practice. Oxford University Press.

Wrege, C. D., & Greenwood, R. G. (1991). Frederick W. Taylor, the father of scientific management: Myth and reality. Irwin.

Wrege, C. D., & Perroni, A. G. (1971). Taylor’s pig-iron experiments: A historical reappraisal.