Great Expectations is Dickens's 13th novel. It appeared in monthly installments from December 1860 to August 1961 in the periodical All the Year Round. It was also published in the United States in Harper's Weekly. It is one of Dickens's best...
Detailed daily descriptions of every variable adjusted in the relay assembly test room, including seating positions, methods to track production, temperature, humidity and lighting.
Documents with detailed analysis of the interview process including, interview methods, sample comments from interviews and comments about the program and the interviews.
Included in this group are tables of vascular skin reaction readings as a measurement of fatigue. There is also an abstract of chapter 5, concerning the physiology and psychology of fatigue, from Edgar James Swifts book Psychology and the days...
Index to administration, public relations, personnel counseling and reference materials, including speeches organized by speaker. The documents listed cover the entire study
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Correspondence: Erle F. Cress to Paul Cress, regarding various battles of the U.S. Civil War, especially those related by the Kroff diary, including the capture of Corinth and the Battle of Shiloh. October 4, 1956.
Papers on the Hawthorne experiments including, a pamphlet titled Research Studies in Employee Effectiveness and Industrial Relations. The pamphlet contained Test Studies in Industrial Research at Hawthorne by G.A. Pennock, and A Plan for...
Schedule of test periods for the first relay assembly test room, including piece rates and converstion factors for relays assembled in the relay assembly test room.
Seven typewritten research reports that were written using the data collected during the Hawthorne study. The papers look at interviewing techniques in general as well as specific examples from the study. It also discusses and outlines their...
Transcription of individual comments from the employee interviews and supervisor interviews sorted into topics including, supervisory and condition changes after the interview process, the interview process in general, and miscellaneous comments.
Two page form/questionnaire used for personal data collection and observation. A narrative case history for each of the 5 mica splitting operators follows. The case histories give marital status and age. There is a discussion of living...
Various pieces of correspondence from 1929-1932 among Western Electric administrators. The earlier pieces of correspondence, including letters to Dr. Elton B. Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research, Graduate School of Business Administration,...
Various speeches and presentations regarding the experiment in the Inspection Branch. The original study was to see the effect of lighting on the operators, which was found to be negligible. What they did find is that the production in the test...