Gender and scientific management – Women and the history of the International Institute for Industrial Relations, 1922-1946

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Title:	Gender and scientific management – Women and the history of the International Institute for Industrial Relations, 1922-1946
Author(s):	Ruth Oldenziel, (University of Amsterdam, Belle van Zuylen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Citation:	Ruth Oldenziel, (2000) "Gender and scientific management – Women and the history of the International Institute for Industrial Relations, 1922-1946", Journal of Management History (Archive), Vol. 6 Iss: 7, pp.323 - 342
Keywords:	Gender, History, Industrial relations, Scientific management, Women
Article type:	General review
DOI:	10.1108/13552520010359351 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	MCB UP Ltd
Abstract:	The relationship between the women’s reform movement and scientific management has been neglected because secondary literature has focussed primarily on class relations rather than on gender. Moreover, the neutral-sounding formulations of scientific management discourse and the diversification of the women’s activism after suffrage has obscured linkages between both movements. Through the case study of the International Institute of Industrial Relations, through which many women reformers of different stripes found each other, the author argues that scientific management had a special appeal for women reformers and should prompt a reconsideration of the connections between gender and the scientific management movement.