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Which book greatly influenced Progressives' ideas about how businesses should be run?
A.
Principles of Scientific Management
B.
Promise of American Life
C.
The Common Law
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D.
Pragmatism

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Answer:

Principles of Scientific Management

Step-by-step explanation:

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2) In the book he proposed that by optimizing and simplifying jobs, productivity would increase. He also advanced the idea that workers and managers needed to cooperate with one another. i.e., he is talking ab how businesses should be run

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"Promise of American Life" book greatly influenced Progressives' ideas about how businesses should be run.

Answer: Option B

Step-by-step explanation:

The New Republic's editor "Herbert Croly" published "The Promise of American Life" in 1909 and influence many personalities involving Theodore Roosevelt in order to opt The New Nationalism platform. But also faced criticization on militant unionization and directed economic planning with motive of hiking quality of life in common.

The "Progressivism: The Critical Problems" found in an excerpt from The Promise of American Life, generated "Hamiltonian Means vs Jeffersonian Values" and motivated progressives concepts regarding business tactics.

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