Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941

Akin, William E. Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941. Berkeley: U of California P, 1977.

Includes extensive biblio. notes and a formal biblio. listing primary and secondary sources in books, articles, and unpublished materials. Traces the Technocracy movement back to its intellectual origins in the work of F. W. Taylor, Thorstein Veblen, and the Progressives, and forward to J. Burnham's The Managerial Revolution (see under Background). See for importance of the Technocrats in the early 1930s, and for some indication of their lasting influence. Important for study of eutopias and dystopias run by engineers and other technicians.