
Diana Kelly, "The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov" (Emerald, 2020)
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He did effect the workings of a lot of companies in his time as a consulting engineer during the 19 twenties. His company was responsible for the original lighting of the lincoln memorial in washington, d c. He would take those scientific management principles of understanding what was happening and talking to workers. If there was a mine accident 300 miles away, he would drive to that mine, talk to the miners, find out what was happening. And that was what informed all the work he did with the united mine workers as the engineering direct trying to improve occupational health and safety in mindes a. But i think his greatest impact was actually when he applied his scientific management principles of researching and understanding
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