page_title: Charles D. Wrege
section_title: Facts and fallacies of Hawthorne, 1961
hierarchical_section_title: Charles D. Wrege / Work / Facts and fallacies of Hawthorne, 1961
caption_attribution_description: English: Hawthorne, Illinois Works of the Western Electric Company, 1925
context_page_description: Charles D. Wrege was an American management historian, and Professor at Rutgers University. He is known for his contributions to management history, especially his critical work on Frederick W. Taylor and scientific management.
context_section_description: Wrege wrote his PhD thesis at the New York University about the Hawthorne studies conducted by Elton Mayo and others in the 1920s and 1930s at the  Hawthorne Works in Cicero, Illinois. Wrege published his findings in 1961 and his work was republished in 1986 by Garland publisher in New York.
  Wrege conducted a historical study of the Hawthorne illumination tests, one of the earliest studies at the Hawthorne works that studied the effect of light levels on worker productivity. Wrege looked at the origins, procedures, and results of these early studies and their influence upon the later Hawthorne studies.
  In his later years Wrege supplied Steven D. Levitt and John A. List with unpublished information and background data for their research later published in the 2011 article "Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant?."
caption: Hawthorne Works in the late 1920s.
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