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Children, the Great Recession and Shifting Calculi of Risk

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Education and the Risk Society

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In 1881, Frederick Winslow Taylor, a relatively obscure foreman from the Midvale Steel Works in Philadelphia, published an essay on metal cutting that rigorously analyzed the individual steps involved in fashioning metal. It marked Taylor’s first foray into an emerging engineering field where industrial processes were studied systematically in order to eliminate waste, increase worker output, and lower costs in the production process.

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Moran, P.W. (2012). Children, the Great Recession and Shifting Calculi of Risk. In: Education and the Risk Society. Contexts of Education, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-961-9_3

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