Efficiency Movement

Examples of Efficiency Movement in the following topics:

• The Progressive Era

  • The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses.
  • These two issues in the movement brought about constitutional change.
  • Another theme was building an Efficiency movement in every sector that could identify old ways that needed modernizing, and that could bring to bear scientific, medical, and engineering solutions.
  • A key part of the Efficiency movement was scientific management, or "Taylorism."
  • List the primary causes championed by the Progressive movement, and some of the movement's major outcomes

• Herbert Hoover: The Great Engineer

  • A trained engineer , Hoover believed firmly in the Efficiency Movement, which held that the government and the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify and solve the problems.

• Al Smith and the Election of 1928

  • A four-time governor of New York, Smith was the foremost urban leader of the efficiency-oriented Progressive Movement, noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s.
  • He was a firm proponent of the Efficiency Movement, which held that the government and economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify and solve the problems.

• Efficiency

  • A major influence on this efficient style of governing was the "Scientific Management" movement.
  • The focus of this movement was to run organizations in an objective, scientific fashion to maximize efficiency, among other things.

• The Progressive Stake in the War

  • The Progressive Movement influenced U.S. policy in World War I through its ideals of morality, efficiency and democracy.
  • While many historians disagree over the exact dates of the Progressive Era, most see World War I as a globalized expression of the American movement, with Wilson's fight for the League of Nations envisioned in his Fourteen Points as its climax.
  • The Progressive Movement was well suited to this effort, as many of its core values involved efficiency in all areas of society.

• Features of Progressivism

  • One of the main political goals of the Progressive Movement was to expose corruption within the United States government.

• The Farmer's Alliance

  • The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s.
  • Political activists in the movement also made attempts to unite the two alliance organizations, along with the Knights of Labor and the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, into a common movement.
  • The alliance movement as a whole reached more than 750,000 members by 1890.
  • The alliance failed as an economic movement, but it is regarded by historians as engendering a "movement culture" among the rural poor.
  • As the focus of the farmers' movement shifted into politics, the Farmers' Alliance faded away.

• Latino Rights

  • The Chicano Movement was the part of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement that sought political and social empowerment for Mexican Americans.
  • The Mexican American Movement was part of the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s seeking political empowerment and social inclusion for Mexican Americans.
  • Like the African American movement, the Mexican American civil rights movement won its earliest victories in the federal courts.
  • The equivalent of the Black Power movement among Mexican Americans was the Chicano Movement.
  • From this movement arose La Raza Unida, a political party that attracted many Mexican American college students.

• The Debate over Preparedness

  • The Preparedness Movement was a frenzy of public concern over the lack of preparedness of the U.S. military, led by Roosevelt and Wood.
  • This proposal ultimately failed, but it fostered the Plattsburg Movement.
  • Several organizations were formed around the Preparedness Movement and held parades and organized opposition to Wilson's policies.
  • The Democratic Party (especially Wilson) was also opposed to the Preparedness Movement, believing it to be a threat.
  • s Preparedness Movement.

• The Agrarian and Populist Movements

  • The Farmers Movement was, in American political history, the general name for a movement between 1867 and 1896.
  • There were three periods of the Farmers Movement, popularly known as the Grange, Alliance, and Populist Movements.
  • The Alliance movement reached its greatest power about 1890.
  • The movement contributed the impetus for all of the following:
  • In short, the movement lessened rural isolation and created many opportunities for farmers.