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The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization [PDF ebook]

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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.

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Format PDF ● Pages 204 ● ISBN 9781134465897 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2004 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4324794 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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