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Holbrook Fitz-John Porter 1858-1933 Biography

HOLBROOK FITZ-JOHN PORTER The following has been summarized from an article by Fred W. Taylor in the May 1906 issue of Cassier’s magazine with quoted excerpts from that article. Additional excepts are quoted from Preliminary report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1912 BORN: 1858, New York City FATHER: General Fitz John Porter, born 1822, Portsmouth,…

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Holbrook Fitz-John Porter on Management circa 1910

INDUSTRIAL BETTERMENT By H. F. J. Porter GENERAL ADMINISTRATION. SELECTION, EDUCATION AND STIMULATION OF WORKMEN; THEIR HEALTH, HOUSING, SOCIETY AND PROTECTION. A lecture delivered before the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [republished from Cassier’s magazine, 1910] [the below is an excerpt from the above referenced article] To his surprise I told…

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