Jean-Maurice Lahy (7 August 1872 in La Réole, Gironde – 22 August 1943 in Saint-Léger-le-Guérétois, Creuse) was a French psychologist, physiologist and sociologist, and an important contributor to the European Science of WorkRabinbach, Anson 1990 The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity in the early 20th century. He spearheaded a thorough critique and revision of F.W Taylor's system of scientific management, upon its introduction into French factories.Rabinbach, Anson 1990 The Human Motor: Energy Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity, BasicBooks, New York, pp. 249-253.
Lahy, a Freemason and Communist with some links to the French Resistance, died of a suspected heart attack while preparing to flee the Gestapo. The exact circumstances of his death remained clouded for many years.
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