ABSTRACT

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1958 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

part I|27 pages

The Project and its Background

chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|13 pages

Ahmedabad and its Textile Industry

chapter 3|5 pages

The Calico Mills

part II|19 pages

Concepts and Assumptions

part III|62 pages

The Experimental Reorganization of Automatic Weaving THE SOCIAL REORGANIZATION OF A TECHNOLOGICALLY DISTURBED PRODUCTION SYSTEM

chapter 6|11 pages

Before Change

chapter 7|11 pages

Reorganization

chapter 8|10 pages

The First Results

chapter 9|13 pages

Follow-Up

chapter 10|8 pages

Later Results

chapter 11|7 pages

Interpretation and Conclusions

part IV|56 pages

The Experimental Reorganization of Non-Automatic Weaving

chapter 12|11 pages

A Non-Automatic Loom Shed

chapter 13|15 pages

Setting Up the Experimental Shed

chapter 14|17 pages

The Outcome of Reorganization

chapter 15|11 pages

Interpretation and Conclusions

part V|58 pages

The Experimental Reorganization of Management

chapter 16|12 pages

The Background to Management Reorganization

chapter 17|8 pages

Management in 1953

chapter 18|15 pages

Analysis of Textile Operations

chapter 19|11 pages

Establishing the New System

chapter 20|10 pages

Manning The New Structure

part VI|30 pages

Social and Technical Change

chapter 21|7 pages

Tasks and their Organization

chapter 22|6 pages

Systems and their Organization

chapter 23|8 pages

The Machine Culture

chapter 24|7 pages

The Management of Change