Manufacturing Rationality

The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution

AvYehouda Shenhav

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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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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Utgivningsdatum:1999-11-18
Mått:162 x 243 x 18 mm
Vikt:514 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198296300

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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.

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Like all good books this one raises as many questions as it answers.

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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