Aleksei Gastev
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Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev (Алексей Капитонович Гастев) (1882, Suzdal - 1939) was an early proponent of the scientific management of labour and an avant-garde poet.
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Works
- Vosstanie kultury, Kharkov: Molodoy rabochiy, 1923. (Russian)
- Novaia kul'turnaia ustanovka, Moscow: VtsSPS-TsIT, 1924. (Russian)
- Poeziya rabochego udara [Поэзия рабочего удара], Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1964; 1971. (Russian)
- Kak nado rabotat': prakticheskoe vvedenie v nauku organizatsii truda [Как надо работать?], Moscow: VDSPS, 1924; Moscow: Ekonomika, 1966; 1972. Compilation of pamphlets and articles issued under the title of a work originally published in the 1920s. (Russian)
- Trudovye ustanovki [Трудовые установки], Moscow: Ekonomika, 1973. (Russian)
Literature
- Kendall A. Bailes, "Alexei Gastev and the Soviet Controversy over Taylorism 1918-1924", Soviet Studies 3 (1977). (English)
- Zenovia A. Sochor, "Soviet Taylorism Revisited", Soviet Studies 33:2 (1981), pp 246-264. (English)
- Kurt Johansson, Aleksej Gastev: Proletarian Bard of the Machine Age, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1983, 170 pp. (English)
- Rolf Hellebust, Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution, Cornell University Press, 2003, 240 pp. [1] (English)
- Ross Wolfe, "The ultra-Taylorist Soviet utopianism of Aleksei Gastev; Further notes on Taylorism and socialism", The Charnel House blog, 7 Dec 2011. (English)
- Julia Vaingurt, "Poetry in Motion: Aleksei Gastev and the Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Biomechanics", ch 2 in Vaingurt, Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s, Northwestern University Press, 2013, pp 25-53. (English)
