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Kanigel, Robert. The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005.

This book gives an extensive look(700 pages)at Taylor's ideas of efficiency and of the factories and workplaces of the times in which he developed them.

Stoutenburg, Adrien. American Tall Tales.. New York, NY: The Viking Press, Inc., 1966.

This book contains a collection of tall tales from Paul Bunyan and Davy Crockett, to Johnny Appleseed and John Henry. Of particular interest to this lesson is the story of Joe Magarac, a "steel man" from Pittsburgh, found on pages 101-112.

Taylor, Frederick W. The Principles of Scientific Management., 5-29. New York: Harper Bros., 1911.

In this work Frederick Winslow Taylor writes about his revolutionary ideas regarding maximizing work efficiency. These principles are considered a basis for the fields of scientific management and systems engineering.

West, Tracey. Teaching Tall Tales. New York: Scholastic, 1999.

This Scholastic book offers cross-curriculum classroom ideas for teaching with other tall tales. (Grades 3-5) Some suggestions include making a railroad timeline with John Henry, mapping a coastline with Old Stormalong, or writing a news story about Sal Fink.

Web Sites

American Museum of Photography, "Did You Ever Have A Dream Like This?" Fantasy Photographs http://www.photographymuseum.com/talltale.html

See early 1900s postcards which made use of altered photography by William H. Martin at the American Museum of Photography.

Frederick Winslow Taylor: The man who made us all work like this…BBC History Magazine, June 2003. http://david-boyle.co.uk/history/frederickwinslowtaylor.html

Modern History Sourcebook: Frederick W. Taylor: The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1911taylor.html

Frederick Winslow Taylor has been called the founder of scientific management and the master of efficiency. This website of his essays gives his ideas as he studies maximizing work efficiency.

Pittsburgh the Powerful: Images 2: Joe Magarac http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/ptp19a.html

Image of Joe Magarac, the tall tale hero of the steel industry

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