This book provides an original and far-reaching analysis of the impact of the modern corporation on contemporary social structure. Combining business history with political insight, it offers a systematic critique of the post-industrial order and the illusions it fosters.
John McDermott is professor emeritus of labor studies at the State University of New York, College of Old Westbury. Previously, he served as senior editor for Viet-Report, and he is currently on the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economy. The author of Crisis in the Working Class, he has authored articles that have appeared in numerous journals, including Dissent, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books.
Innehållsförteckning
Preface -- Introduction: Renewing the Discussion -- Corporate Form: Organizing the Production of a New Physical World -- The Evolution of Corporate Form -- Private and Corporate Property -- The Ruling Class in Corporate Society -- The Modern Middle Class -- Managing the Collective Worker -- Neither Artisans nor Proletarians -- Epilogue: Alberich and Prometheus— the Modern Corporation as a Social Institution
