'Sofer has done an excellent job. In elegant, graceful prose, he paints a penetrating portrait of pre-state ploitics, from the militant Revisionist movement on the far-right to the Communist on the far-left, illustrating the process by which David Ben-Gurion and his particular faction of the Labor movement achieved hegmony.' Haárett and Herald Tribune

• Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The work preoccupations of executives; 2. Persons as organisational resources; 3. The career as a personal experience; 4. The bureaucratised organisation as an occupational environment; 5. Functions of work roles; 6. The personal significance of the job; 7. The personality of the industrial manager; 8. The Autoline and Novoplast companies: structure, operations, ideology and personnel institutions; 9. Composition and representativeness of the samples studied; 10. The role of the job and the meanings of work; 11. Evaluations of the job and the employing organisation; 12. The career in retrospect and prospect; 13. The company in the life space; 14. Career concerns and hazards; 15. The technical specialist in the industrial organisation; 16. Advancement within the organisation; 17. Interaction between the executive, his colleagues and his employing organisation; Appendices: 1. Interviewing schedule used with Autoline and Novoplast samples; 2. Characteristic functions of members of sample; 3. Occupations of fathers of men in sample; 4. Descriptive details of men at Autoline and Novoplast; 5. Effects of differences in occupation and education; Author index; Subject index.

'Sofer has done an excellent job. In elegant, graceful prose, he paints a penetrating portrait of pre-state ploitics, from the militant Revisionist movement on the far-right to the Communist on the far-left, illustrating the process by which David Ben-Gurion and his particular faction of the Labor movement achieved hegmony.' Haárett and Herald Tribune

• Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The work preoccupations of executives; 2. Persons as organisational resources; 3. The career as a personal experience; 4. The bureaucratised organisation as an occupational environment; 5. Functions of work roles; 6. The personal significance of the job; 7. The personality of the industrial manager; 8. The Autoline and Novoplast companies: structure, operations, ideology and personnel institutions; 9. Composition and representativeness of the samples studied; 10. The role of the job and the meanings of work; 11. Evaluations of the job and the employing organisation; 12. The career in retrospect and prospect; 13. The company in the life space; 14. Career concerns and hazards; 15. The technical specialist in the industrial organisation; 16. Advancement within the organisation; 17. Interaction between the executive, his colleagues and his employing organisation; Appendices: 1. Interviewing schedule used with Autoline and Novoplast samples; 2. Characteristic functions of members of sample; 3. Occupations of fathers of men in sample; 4. Descriptive details of men at Autoline and Novoplast; 5. Effects of differences in occupation and education; Author index; Subject index.