I like pohnpei397's comments about how Henry Ford and the concept of mass production can be applied to Brave New World, and I want to add some thoughts about how some of the other great names that you give may be applied to the novel.
Marx has perhaps the most obvious application. The novel depicts the purposeful creation of classes and even class conflict (or, at the very least, a ranking of classes) in order to have a highly functioning social system with no dissent or potential for revolution.
Freud's theories of the unconscious may perhaps apply to the mechanism of sleep-teaching in the novel.
I wish I could say more, but it's been years since I last read this great novel. I look forward to what other posters might have to say.
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