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Frederick Arthur Halsey (July 12, 1856 - Oct. 20, 1935) was an American mechanical engineer and economist, who was long-time editor of the ''American Machinist'' magazine, and particularly known for his 1891 article, entitled "The premium plan of paying for labor."〔Litterer, Joseph A. "Systematic management: design for organizational recoupling in American manufacturing firms." ''Business History Review'' 37.04 (1963): 369-391.〕〔Clawson, Dan. ''Bureaucracy and the labor process: The transformation of US industry, 1860-1920.'' New York: Monthly Review Press, 1980.〕 == Biography == Halsey was born in Unadilla, New York to the physician Gaius Leonard Halsey, and Juliet Cartington Halsey. He was the younger brother of Francis Whiting Halsey (1851–1919), who became a noted American journalist, editor and historian. At the age of 22 in 1878 Frederick graduated from Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering. Halsey was editor of the ''American Machinist''. In his famous 1891 paper "The Premium Plan of Paying for Labor," he argued "against piecework payment and profit-sharing, and proposing an incentive wage system with an hourly wage, production requirements, and additional pay incentives for workers who exceed production goals -- had a major impact on the subsequent structure of labor pay in America and Britain." In 1902 he was representative of the National Association of Manufacturers and successful opposed the metric system adoption in United States. In 1917 he was one of the founding members the American Institute of Weights and Measures to keep opposing the adoption of the metric system in the US. In 1922 he was awarded the ASME Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for "eminently distinguished engineering achievement". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick A. Halsey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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