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The Human Factor

The Human Factor

Original Title: Le Facteur Humain

201228m
Documentary

Status

Released

Release

2012

Runtime

28m

Storyline

In 1914, an engineer sent away to reorganize a factory exchanges letters with his wife. As he tells her about his experiments in taylorism, she picks up bits and pieces of this method and applies it to her daily tasks at home. While he gets disappointed by the Taylor system, she becomes a true domestic engineer. Mingling images of American institutional movies to extracts of handbooks on management from the 1900s and 1910s The Human Factor aims at showing the genesis of Taylorism and its main effects upon industrial societies. It is also a love story.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
28m
Jan 28, 2012
Languages
French
Director
Thibault Le Texier
Thibault Le Texier
Production
GREC
GREC
Production Countries
France
Official Website

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