Article ID: CBB596737347

Psychology as technology: industrial psychology for an industrializing China (2022)

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Seow, Victor Kian Giap (Author)


History and Technology
Volume: 38
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 257-273


Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Issue theme: Making History: Technologies of Production and the Estate of Knowledge in East Asia
Language: English

This article examines the advent of industrial psychology in China in the 1930s, asking how it was that this science of work that had been conceived to meet the challenges of industrial society and industrial production came to be taken up in an economy that had, in this period, a small industrial sector. Through this history, which includes a close look at the first industrial psychology study in China, this article shows how workers and workplaces became subjects of systematic study, and the extent and limits of industrial reforms by industrial psychologists who peddled the promise of small changes adding up to large effects.

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Article Victor Seow; Dagmar Schäfer (2022) Making history: technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia. History and Technology (pp. 107-125). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bluma, Lars
Derksen, Maarten
Johnston, Elizabeth B.
Johri, Aditya
Mrozowski, Stephen A.
Patzel-Mattern, Katja
Journals
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Book History
Contemporary European History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Engineering Studies
History and Technology
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Columbia University Press
Oxford University Press
Stuttgart Steiner
Transcript
University of California Press
Concepts
Labor and laborers
Work environment
Industrial psychology; industrial sociology
Scientific management
Psychology
Science and industry
People
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller
Amar, Jules
Boring, Edwin Garrigues
Gilbreth, Frank Bunker
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
China
Europe
Germany
Sweden
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Institutions
Harvard University
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