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How Middle Management Made the Modern World

Literary Hub 12 May 2026 23h ago
How Middle Management Made the Modern World
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Late nineteenth-century American machine shop foreman Frederick Winslow Taylor had a problem: his friends didn’t like him. Rather like Samuel Bentham a century earlier, he began his career in a facility defined by working-class solidarity but did not himself come
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