The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization

Elton Mayo

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN: 9781134465880
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

In this volume Mayo discusses the Hawthorne experiments, relating the findings about human relations within the Hawthorne plant to the social environment in the surrounding Chicago area. The Chicago School of Sociologists were studying aspects of social disorganization and this was a topic pioneered by Emile Durkheim.

INDEX TO TOPICS

“Abreaction” theory, 131

“Acquisitive Society, The Sickness of an,” Tawney) 150, 151.

Administration, first problem of new, 177, 188

Administrator, problem of the, 168–188; “circulation of the elité,” 174, 175

Alkali reserve, diminution of, during exercise, 12, 14

Andaman Islanders, studies of, 154

Andaman Islands, studies of anthropology in, 141

Anomie, 130, 135, 137, 141, 142, 172, 184

Anthropological Institute Journal, 155

Anthropology, a study of, in Newburyport, Mass., 138–141; its study in the Andaman Islands, the Trobriands, and Australia, 141: what its study has shown in Newburyport, 142; McDougall’ s assertion as to the necessity of its study, 150; "functional anthropology,” 154

“Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” study of “functional anthropology,” 154

Athlete during exercise, 14, 17

Australian aborigines, studies of anthropology among, 141, 154, 155 179

Biological experiment, 11, 12, 55

Biology, Human, G. H. Pitt-Rivers, 166

Blood, changes in concentration of lactates and bicarbonates during exercise, 12; supply of, during exercise, 19; depletion of sugar and fatigue, 26

“Blood,” by L. J. Henderson, 11

Boredom, effect of, 32–34, 40, 42, 45

Boulder Dam, researches at, 21

Business and Science, The Sylvan Press, 11

Chicago, study of delinquency in, 123–126; Shaw’ s findings, 125–127

Child analysis, 157–163

“Child, Judgment and Reasoning in the,” Harcourt, Brace & Co., 162; Language and Thought of the, Piaget, 160, 161

“Child’ s Conception of the World, The,” Piaget, 161

“Clash of Culture,” Pitt-Rivers, 140

Communism, 182

“Delinquency Areas,” Shaw, 123–126

Delinquents, study of geographic distribution of, 123, 124. Clifford Shaw’ s findings, 125–127

Denmark, “functional economy” in, 153

“Dynamical Changes Occurring in Man at Work,” A. V. Bock, D. B. Dill and others in Journal of Physiology, 17

“Economy, functional,” 153; “acquisitive,” 154

Élite, governmental and non-govemmental, 174–177, 183, 185, 188

England, trade union in, 181; her study of anthropology, 183; off the gold standard, 184; cost of living in, 184: differences between United states and, 184

“Fact, An Approximate Definition of,” Henderson, 11

Fatigue, industrial, 4, 9, 18; physiological, 5–7; muscular and mental, 8, 9; measure of fatigues, 9–11; various meanings of, 22, 23, 25, 26; thus far studied, how caused, 169

France, unity of life in, 187; foreign policy of, 187; “Our Genial Enemy,” Schoonmaker, 187

Government, difficulties of civilised, 144; its increase in control of industrial and social functions, 145; origin of increase in government control, 145–150

Harvard Dept, of Anthropology, 115, 138

Harvard Fatigue Laboratory, 11, 12; charts of, prepared by Dr. D. B. Dill, 13, 15, 16, 20; Plate I, physical fitness measured by lactic acid increase and carbonic acid capacity decrease, 13; Plate II, physica...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• I. Fatigue
• II. What Is Monotony?
• III. The Hawthorne Experiment
• IV. Development of the Western Electric Inquiry
• V. The Meaning of “Morale”
• VI. The Reaction of Industry upon the Social Order
• VII. Theories of Government and the Social Order
• VIII. The Problem of the Administrator
• Index to Authors
• Index to Topics