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How to Work · Как надо работать

Alexei Gastev

Translated by S. Alexander Laurent

The first complete English translation of How to Work: the poet of the machine on how to work, the whole 1972 anthology, from Our Tasks and The Hour Strikes to Time, the Ford letters and the Central Institute of Labour’s norms and methods, in Russian beside S. Alexander Laurent’s English.

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  • Russian: А. К. Гастев, Как надо работать. Практическое введение в науку организации труда, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Ekonomika, 1972).
  • English: S. Alexander Laurent (October 2026), the first complete English translation of How to Work. English translation © 2026 S. Alexander Laurent. All rights reserved.
  • Marx and Ford: Alexander Laurent’s own translation by hand (September 2026).

Contents · 105

  1. 1Editors’ introduction (1972): Gastev and his “last work of art” · 1 of 2
  2. 2Editors’ introduction (1972): Gastev and his “last work of art” · 2 of 2
  3. 3Preface to the Second Edition
  4. 4Our Tasks · I. Our Path
  5. 5Our Tasks · II. Problems
  6. 6Our Tasks · III. Plan of Work
  7. 7Our Practical Methodology
  8. 8The Revolt of Culture: an earlier preface
  9. 9The Hour Strikes · 1 of 2
  10. 10The Hour Strikes · 2 of 2
  11. 11People’s Bearing [The Training of a People]
  12. 12Electrification and the Energetics of the People
  13. 13Training
  14. 14The Revolt of Culture · 1 of 2
  15. 15The Revolt of Culture · 2 of 2
  16. 16Time · 1 of 5
  17. 17Time · 2 of 5
  18. 18Time · 3 of 5
  19. 19Time · 4 of 5
  20. 20Time · 5 of 5
  21. 21A New Cultural Orientation [A New Cultural Set] · 1 of 5
  22. 22A New Cultural Orientation [A New Cultural Set] · 2 of 5
  23. 23A New Cultural Orientation [A New Cultural Set] · 3 of 5
  24. 24A New Cultural Orientation [A New Cultural Set] · 4 of 5
  25. 25A New Cultural Orientation [A New Cultural Set] · 5 of 5
  26. 26How to Work: Book Opening and Edition Prefaces
  27. 27Our Road — CIT
  28. 28How to Work (Commentary) · 1 of 2
  29. 29How to Work (Commentary) · 2 of 2
  30. 30The Workplace
  31. 31The Will to Invent
  32. 32How to Invent?
  33. 33Work Aids
  34. 34Installation
  35. 35Learning to Work
  36. 36What Is NOT?
  37. 37Equipment and NOT
  38. 38Guide to Recording Operations
  39. 39Attention to “Small Details”
  40. 40CIT’s Social Banner
  41. 41Craft and Modern Industry
  42. 42Pedagogical and Scientific Research Tendencies in the Most Advanced Production · 1 of 2
  43. 43Pedagogical and Scientific Research Tendencies in the Most Advanced Production · 2 of 2
  44. 44New Conduct in Production
  45. 45Labour Sets [Labour Dispositions]
  46. 46CIT as a Research Structure [Research Establishment] · 1 of 4
  47. 47CIT as a Research Structure [Research Establishment] · 2 of 4
  48. 48CIT as a Research Structure [Research Establishment] · 3 of 4
  49. 49CIT as a Research Structure [Research Establishment] · 4 of 4
  50. 50The Expansion of CIT’s Clinical Work
  51. 51Norm-Setting and the Organisation of Labour: Opening Sections · 1 of 4
  52. 52Norm-Setting and the Organisation of Labour: Opening Sections · 2 of 4
  53. 53Norm-Setting and the Organisation of Labour: Opening Sections · 3 of 4
  54. 54Norm-Setting and the Organisation of Labour: Opening Sections · 4 of 4
  55. 55Part Two. Historical Overview · 1 of 3
  56. 56Part Two. Historical Overview · 2 of 3
  57. 57Part Two. Historical Overview · 3 of 3
  58. 58Part Three. Orientation in Questions of Norm-Setting
  59. 59Part Four. Norms and Worker Types
  60. 60Part Five. Studying and Measuring Norms · 1 of 6
  61. 61Part Five. Studying and Measuring Norms · 2 of 6
  62. 62Part Five. Studying and Measuring Norms · 3 of 6
  63. 63Part Five. Studying and Measuring Norms · 4 of 6
  64. 64Part Five. Studying and Measuring Norms · 5 of 6
  65. 65Part Five. Studying and Measuring Norms · 6 of 6
  66. 66Part Six. Norm-Setting and Labour Culture in the Period of Socialist Construction
  67. 67The Organisation of Production as a Science · 1 of 3
  68. 68The Organisation of Production as a Science · 2 of 3
  69. 69The Organisation of Production as a Science · 3 of 3
  70. 70Production-Support Shops at Enterprises
  71. 71CIT–Ford correspondence (1928)
  72. 72Marx and Ford
  73. 73The Organisation of Labour in the Stakhanovite Movement
  74. 74The Workplace and Its Servicing · 1 of 7
  75. 75The Workplace and Its Servicing · 2 of 7
  76. 76The Workplace and Its Servicing · 3 of 7
  77. 77The Workplace and Its Servicing · 4 of 7
  78. 78The Workplace and Its Servicing · 5 of 7
  79. 79The Workplace and Its Servicing · 6 of 7
  80. 80The Workplace and Its Servicing · 7 of 7
  81. 81For the Fifteenth Anniversary of October
  82. 82The Scientific Organisation of Labour · 1 of 3
  83. 83The Scientific Organisation of Labour · 2 of 3
  84. 84The Scientific Organisation of Labour · 3 of 3
  85. 85Problems of the Organisation of Labour and Production · 1 of 2
  86. 86Problems of the Organisation of Labour and Production · 2 of 2
  87. 87Designing the workforce, its training and the organisation of labour · 1 of 2
  88. 88Designing the workforce, its training and the organisation of labour · 2 of 2
  89. 89The Scope and Character of CIT’s Work
  90. 90Technical Norm Setting on a New Basis
  91. 91Designing flow production · 1 of 4
  92. 92Designing flow production · 2 of 4
  93. 93Designing flow production · 3 of 4
  94. 94Designing flow production · 4 of 4
  95. 95Ways of Applying Forces in the Organisation of Labour and Production · 1 of 3
  96. 96Ways of Applying Forces in the Organisation of Labour and Production · 2 of 3
  97. 97Ways of Applying Forces in the Organisation of Labour and Production · 3 of 3
  98. 98CIT’s Work in the Coal-Mining Industry
  99. 99The Extent of Our Reach
  100. 100CIT in the Red Army
  101. 101Work-set–functional organisation of labour in construction · 1 of 2
  102. 102Work-set–functional organisation of labour in construction · 2 of 2
  103. 103Methods of rapid assembly in machine-building
  104. 104Machine-tool building on the basis of standard units
  105. 105Technical and organisational assistance to enterprises