ABSTRACT
Potron’s last economic contribution of the period 1911–1914 concerns the theories of scientific management put forward by the American mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915). The article ‘L’organisation scientifique du travail. Le ‘Système Taylor’ was published in two instalments in Le Mouvement Social, with the first part, ‘A. – Les principes’ (15 June 1914, 77(6): 497–510) covering its basic principles, and the second, ‘B. – Les sanctions de l’experience’ (15 July 1914, 78(1): 21–33), focusing on its practical effects. There is something odd about the numbering of sections in this article, since part A is split into sections I and II whereas part B is split into sections V and VI. Most probably, however, we are dealing with a simple typographical error.
