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Work and Authority in Industry Managerial Ideologies in the Course of Industrialization
By Reinhard Bendix
Copyright 2001
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Work and Authority in Industry analyzes how the entrepreneurial class responded to the challenge of creating, and later managing, an industrial work force in widely differing types of industrial societies: the United States, England, and Russia. Bendix's penetrating re-examination of an aspect of economic history largely taken for granted was first published in 1965. It has become a classic. His... Read more
1. Industrialization, Management, and Ideological Appeals, P A R T O N E 2. Entrepreneurial Ideologies in the Early Phase of Industrialization: The Case of England, 3. Entrepreneurial Ideologies in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russia, P A R T T W O 4. The Bureaucratization of Economic Enterprises, P A R T T H R E E 5. The American Experience, 6. Managerial Ideologies in the Russian Orbit, 7. Conclusion: Industrialization, Ideologies, and Social Structure.
Biography
Reinhard Bendix (1916-1991) was professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of many awards and honors throughout his lifetime, including being a fellow for the Fulbright Program, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Woodrow Wilson International Center Scholar. He belonged to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.
