Zamyatin in Newcastle

Myers, Alan. "Zamyatin in Newcastle." Foundation #59 (Autumn 1993): 70-78.

Analyzes two short novels—Islanders and A Fisher of Men by Y. Zamiatin, seeing both as based on Zamiatin's two years during World War I spent in Newcastle (UK) supervising the construction of Russian icebreakers. Both novels satirize English social and economic life, and are prototypes for Zamiatin's most famous work, We. Shipbuilding techniques from this era influenced Zamiatin's subsequent critiques of the "scientific management" theories known as Taylorism. See "scientific management" in Clockworks Keyword Index; see A. Aldridge's "Origins of Dystopia," G. Beauchamp's "Man as Robot," and C. H. Rhodes's "Frederick Winslow Taylor's System of Scientific Management." (RDE, 27/04/95)