[Cover design by A. Rodchenko.] Taylor, Frederick Winslow. [The Principles of Scientific Management] Nauchnaya organisatziya truda: monograph. With a foreword by Platon Kerzhentsev.

Cover design by A. Rodchenko.

Taylor, Frederick Winslow. [The Principles of Scientific Management] Nauchnaya organisatziya truda: monograph. With a foreword by Platon Kerzhentsev.

Moscow: NKPS Transpechat, 1925. 8vo (230x150mm); [2], VI, 276 pages, illustrated.

In original wrappers. Front cover not attached to the block, half of the back cover is missing. Worn, shows light creasing and tearing; owners pencil marginalia along the pages. Book block complete, all pages present. Overall in fair condition.

A manifesto of the first wave of ‘NOT’ (Scientific Organization of Labor) in the USSR, an instrument of Fordism that foreshadowed Stalin’s industrialization, coming three years before the first Five-Year Plan.

This edition of Taylor’s world-famous monograph is unique for two reasons:

1) Bold, constructivist cover design by renowned Soviet artist A. Rodchenko (1891-1956);

2) Inclusion of a foreword by Platon Kerzhentsev (1881-1940), a Proletkult theorist who was a pioneer of adapting Western ideas of scientific management to Soviet realities.

OCLC locates three copies of this edition: Yale University Library, Princeton University Library, Johns Hopkins University.