Manufacturing Rationality

The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

AvYehouda Shenhav,Tel-Aviv University) Shenhav, Yehouda (Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Professor of Sociology,Yehouda A. Shenhav

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-11-18
Mått162 x 243 x 18 mm
Vikt514 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198296300

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Yehouda Shenhav is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Stanford University (1985) and an M.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the Israel Institute of Technology (1981). Shenhav taught at several universities in the United States, including Stanford University, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Iowa. He served as Head of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University between 1995 and 1998.

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