Manufacturing the Employee : Management Knowledge from the 19th to 21st Centuries.
Title:
Manufacturing the Employee : Management Knowledge from the 19th to 21st Centuries.
Author:
Jacques, Roy S. (Stager).
ISBN:
9781446265239
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 - Managing for the Next Century - or the Last? -- Chapter 2 - Evolutionary and Discursive Histories of Knowledge -- Chapter 3 - Federalist Reality - the Pre-history of Management -- Chapter 4 - The Demise of Federalist Reality - 'the Birth of a Nation' -- Chapter 5 - A New Social Contract - Industrial Reality, a Problem to Manage -- Chapter 6 - The Disciplinary World of L'employé -- Chapter 7 - The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Managerialist Thought as a Conceptual Prison -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Contemporary thinking about management is still frequently presented as a set of universal, eternal verities. In this fascinating book Roy Jacques presents a discursive history of industrial work relationships in the United States which powerfully demonstrates that they are not.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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