Manufacturing rationality : the engineering foundations of the managerial revolution
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Manufacturing rationality : the engineering foundations of the managerial revolution
Oxford University Press, 1999
- : hbk
Available at 14 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [222]-235
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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