Productivity and Social Organization

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> 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 <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> 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.</p> I: The Project and its Background; 1: Introduction; 2: Ahmedabad and its Textile Industry; 3: The Calico Mills; II: Concepts and Assumptions; 4: Task and Work-Group Organization; 5: Operating and Managing Systems of Industrial Organization; III: The Experimental Reorganization of Automatic Weaving THE SOCIAL REORGANIZATION OF A TECHNOLOGICALLY DISTURBED PRODUCTION SYSTEM; 6: Before Change; 7: Reorganization; 8: The First Results; 9: Follow-Up; 10: Later Results; 11: Interpretation and Conclusions; IV: The Experimental Reorganization of Non-Automatic Weaving; 12: A Non-Automatic Loom Shed; 13: Setting Up the Experimental Shed; 14: The Outcome of Reorganization; 15: Interpretation and Conclusions; V: The Experimental Reorganization of Management; 16: The Background to Management Reorganization; 17: Management in 1953; 18: Analysis of Textile Operations; 19: Establishing the New System; 20: Manning The New Structure; VI: Social and Technical Change; 21: Tasks and their Organization; 22: Systems and their Organization; 23: The Machine Culture; 24: The Management of Change