Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The rise of the factory system in Britain: efficiency or exploitation? -- The coevolution of technology and organisation in the transition to the factory system -- Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises -- Knowledge, information and organisational structures -- Technological change, transaction costs, and the industrial organisation of cotton production in the US South, 1950_1970 -- The maintenance of professional authority: the case of physicians and hospitals in the United States -- Men and monotony: fraternalism as a managerial strategy at the Ford Motor Company -- Management and labour in German chemical companies before World War One -- Buddenbrooks revisited: the firm and the entrepreneurial family in Germany during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Index.