Arthur Howland Young

Arthur Howland Young (December 19, 1882 - March 4, 1964) was an American engineer, vice president of U.S. Steel, lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and the California Institute of Technology, pioneer of management-labor relations, and recipient of the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1933.

Biography Young was born in Joliet, Illinois to Edward Howland Young and Carrie E. Chidsey Young. Young had received some regular education, and started his career at young age as laborer.

Young worked his way up, and started in the steel industry at the south Chicago plants of the Illinois Steel Company. Later he joined the International Harvester Company, where he became manager of industrial relations. In World War I he served as chief safety experts of arsenal and navy. and at Stanford University on the Caltech faculty from 1939 to 1952. In 1944 the US Navy awarded him the Meritorious Civilian Service Emblem.

Selected publications George F. Johnson, Arthur H. Young, Wm. E. Mackenzie, W. S. Rogers, M. R. Lott, F. N. Macpherson, The Management and the worker, Chicago, A.W. Shaw company, 1920. Arthur Howland Young, Evaluating personnel work in industry, 1924

Articles, a selection Arthur H. Young. "Caltech's new industrial relations section," Caltech Campus Pubs, June 1949