| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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William M. Tsutsui. Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 279. $29.95.

More than most mechanical engineers, the American Frederick Winslow Taylor created a stir. His influence on American and European industrial management and workplace organization has been studied in considerable depth. The impact of Taylorite scientific management on Japan, however, has been less fully considered. It is common to suggest that although Taylor's ideas were known in Japan, to have implemented them would have required practices contrary to local labor conditions, social behavior, and cultural values. As a consequence, according to this point of view, from early in this century Japanese managers ignored scientific management or altered it in distinctive ways to bring Taylorite prescriptions in line with domestic cultural needs. This new book by William M. Tsutsui, the first full-length treatment of scientific management in Japan, argues the reverse. From 1911, the author claims, Taylorite scientific management had been "a potent ideological template in Japan" (p. 11). . . .

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