Manufacturing Rationality

The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution

AvYehouda Shenhav

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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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 and development of management and managerial rationality in the United States in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century.Through careful analysis of contemporary records in the engineering profession, the author shows how management invented itself and carved its own domain in the face of hostility and resistance from both manufacturers and workers. The book demonstrates how the new language and rhetoric of management emerged, and how it confronted and replaced the language of traditional capitalism: 'system' instead of 'individuals'; 'jobs' instead of 'natural rights'; 'planning' instead of 'free initiatives'.Manufacturing Rationality can be read simultaneously as an historical account of the genesis of modern management, a chapter in the history of American capitalism, a critical analysis of industrial engineering, and as a sociology of (managerial) knowledge.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-03-14
Mått:157 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199250004

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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 and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University between 1995 and 1998.

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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