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Jean-Maurice Lahy

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Jean-Maurice Lahy
Born7 August 1872 Edit this on Wikidata
Died22 August 1943 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 71)
Academic career

Jean-Maurice Lahy (born 7 August 1872 in La Réole, Gironde, died 22 August 1943 in Saint-Léger-le-Guérétois, Creuse) was a French psychologist, physiologist and sociologist, and an important contributor to the European Science of Work[1] in the early 20th century. He spearheaded a thorough critique and revision of F.W Taylor's system of scientific management, upon its introduction into French factories.[2]

Lahy, a Freemason and Communist with some links to the French Resistance, died of a suspected heart attack while preparing to flee the Gestapo. The exact circumstances of his death remained clouded for many years.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Rabinbach, Anson 1990 The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity
  2. ^ Rabinbach, Anson 1990 The Human Motor: Energy Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity, BasicBooks, New York, pp. 249-253.
  3. ^ Turbiaux, Marcel (2007). "Abstract". Bulletin de Psychologie. 489 (3): 267–273. doi:10.3917/bupsy.489.0267.