The Scientific Manager and the FBI: The Surveillance of Walter Polakov in the 1940s

Authors

Diana J. Kelly, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

105566

Publication Details

Kelly, D. J. (2016). The Scientific Manager and the FBI: The Surveillance of Walter Polakov in the 1940s. American Communist History, 15 (1), 35-57.

Abstract

Scholars who have sought to demonstrate the complexity of scientific management as a philosophy, a movement, and a mode of thinking have only rarely discussed the scientific managers themselves1. Yet their lives offer important insights not only into a unique group of engineers, managers, and academics, but also into the competing tensions across American society in the first half of the twentieth century.