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Book Title: Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management In Twentieth-C...
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Manufacturing Ideology : Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Industrial Engineering, Economic History, Management Science, International / General
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Author: William M. Tsutsui
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
