<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Colleagues - <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some of you may be interested in a conference we are hosting at Stevens Institute of Technology in September 2015, on the life and legacy of Frederick Winslow Taylor. As you will see from the description below, we hope to host a broad and interdisciplinary gathering that will include significant consideration of Taylorism in the digital age. Prof. Simon Head (NYU and Oxford, author of Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans) has agreed to give a keynote address. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For details, please see below and visit the conference website, <a href="https://www.stevens.edu/library/taylorsworld" class="">https://www.stevens.edu/library/taylorsworld</a>. Submissions are due March 1, 2015.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please share and cross-post widely!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—————————————————————————————— </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.stevens.edu/library/taylorsworld" class="">https://www.stevens.edu/library/taylorsworld</a></div><div class=""><div class="ds-top-group">
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<div class="field field-name-field-intro-text"><p style="line-height: 20.0063037872314px;" class=""><strong style="line-height: 20.0063037872314px;" class=""><u class="">Call for Papers</u></strong></p><div class="">On
September 24th and 25th, 2015, Stevens Institute of Technology will be
hosting a conference on the life and legacy of Frederick Winslow Taylor,
a graduate of Stevens who is widely recognized as the father of
scientific management. The event marks the centennial of Taylor’s death
in 1915, and will explore both Taylor’s place in history and his legacy
in the 21st century. We welcome proposals for either individual papers
or full panels.</div><div class=""> </div> </div> </div>
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<div class="field field-name-body"><p class=""><strong class=""><span style="line-height: 1.538em;" class="">Potential topics include but are in no way limited to:</span></strong></p><ul class=""><li class="">Taylor’s influence on contemporary management practice</li><li class="">The movement of Taylor’s ideas around the globe</li><li class="">Vestiges of Taylorism in digital media and labor, including Digital Turking and other forms of crowd sourcing</li><li class="">The place of organized labor, race, gender, and sexuality in Taylor’s thought and work</li><li class="">Taylor’s place in intellectual and cultural history</li><li class="">Taylor’s influence on sports technologies, especially golf and tennis</li><li class="">The effect of Taylorism on business strategy and technological change</li></ul><p class=""><span style="line-height: 1.538em;" class=""><a href="http://www.stevens.edu" class="">Stevens Institute of Technology </a>is
located in Hoboken, NJ, directly across the Hudson River from New York
City. Founded in 1870, Stevens students, faculty, and partners leverage
their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation,
research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in
engineering, science, systems and technology management.</span></p><p class=""><span style="line-height: 1.538em;" class="">In
1933, Stevens Institute of Technology held a Fiftieth Anniversary
celebration of the graduation of Frederick Winslow Taylor. At that time
his family, friends and associates presented personal mementos, books,
documents and graphic material to Stevens in his memory. It was an
important occasion to which many close friends and associates came to
honor him. Upon the death of Dr. Taylor's widow, his sons, Dr. Kempton
P.A. Taylor and Mr. Robert P.A. Taylor, presented<a href="https://www.stevens.edu/library/collections/frederick-winslow-taylor" class=""> the Taylor archive</a> to Stevens in 1949.</span></p><p class=""><span style="line-height: 1.538em;" class="">Please submit proposals for papers or panels by 1 March 2015, by filling out <a href="https://www.stevens.edu/library/taylorsworldsubmission" class="">submission proposal form</a></span><span style="line-height: 1.538em;" class="">.
Paper proposals should be 250–500 words; panel proposals should collect
individual paper abstracts of that same length and also include a brief
description of the panel’s overarching theme. Panel proposals may also
suggest possible commentators.</span></p><p class=""><span style="line-height: 1.538em;" class="">All other inquiries about the conference can be sent to Leah Loscutoff, </span><a href="mailto:lloscuto@stevens.edu" style="line-height: 1.538em;" class="">lloscuto@stevens.edu</a><span style="line-height: 1.538em;" class="">. </span></p></div></div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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