01291mam a2200157 a 4500008004100000020001500041100002400056245010200080260005900182300003200241520043900273520034400712650002701056650002601083050002401109971112s1998    njuab    b    001 0 eng    a06910745691 aTsutsui, William M.10aManufacturing ideology :bscientific management in twentieth-century Japan /cWilliam M. Tsutsui.  aPrinceton, N.J. :bPrinceton University Press,cc1998.  axi, 279 p. :bill., 1 map ;  aTsutsui's study charts Taylorism's Japanese incarnation from the "efficiency movement" of the 1920s, through Depression-era "rationalization" and wartime mobilization, up to postwar "productivity" drives and quality-control campaigns. Taylorism became more than a management tool; its spread beyond the factory was a potent intellectual template in debates over economic growth, social policy, and political authority in modern Japan.8 aTsutsui's historical and comparative perspectives reveal the centrality of Japanese Taylorism to ongoing discussions of Japan's government-industry relations and the evolution of Fordist mass production. He compels us to rethink what implications Japanese-style management has for Western industries, as well as the future of Japan itself. 0aIndustrial engineering 0aIndustrial management00aT55.77.J3bT78 1998