Manufacturing rationality : the engineering foundations of the managerial revolution

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Manufacturing rationality : the engineering foundations of the managerial revolution

Yehouda Shenhav

Oxford University Press, 1999

  • : hbk

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Bibliography: p. [222]-235

Includes index

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内容説明

Management is a powerful mode of thought and code of conduct in the modern world, closely associated with the American way and a natural extension of economic progress. This is a book about the history of management and the origin of managerial rationality in the United States.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. Prophets of Management
  • American Engineers between Industrial Growth and Labor Unrest
  • 2. Engineering Rationality
  • 'System Shall Replace Chaos'
  • 3. Colonizing the Mind
  • The Translation of Systematization to the Management of Organizations
  • 4. Contested Rationality
  • Disturbances, Controversies, and Opposition to Management Systems
  • 5. Engineers, Labor Politics, and American Exceptionalism before 1900
  • 6. Taming the Shrew
  • Systems and Labor Politics during the Progressive Period
  • 7. Deus ex Machina
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Appendix
  • Description of the Engineering-Management Literature

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