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Management & Organizational History, Vol. 3, No. 2, 107-125 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1744935908092134

Towards neuroscientific management? Geometric chronophotography and the thin-slicing of the labouring body

J. Martin Corbett

University of Warwick, martin.corbett{at}wbs.ac.uk

The conventional history of the labour process suggests that Taylorism played a key role in the development and popularization of production management techniques in general, and work science in particular.This paper argues that the work of Herman von Helmholtz, Eadweard Muybridge, and Etienne-Jules Marey helped establish a broader ideology of the labour process encompassing physiological, psychological and psychodynamic elements of human behaviour. Through the medium of chronophotography, this ideology offered a visual vocabulary of efficiency which pre-dated the work of Frederick Taylor and continues to influence management research and practices today.

Key Words: chronophotography • Helmholtz • Marey • Muybridge • psychophysics • subliminal • unconscious


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