Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution - Tapa blanda

Shenhav, Yehouda

 
9780199250004: Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution
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ISBN 10: 0199250006 ISBN 13: 9780199250004
Editorial: Oxford University Press, 2002

Sinopsis

Management is a powerful mode of thought and code of conduct in the modern world, closely associated with the American way and a natural extension of economic progress. This is a book about the history and development of management and managerial rationality in the United States in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century.

Through careful analysis of contemporary records in the engineering profession, the author shows how management invented itself and carved its own domain in the face of hostility and resistance from both manufacturers and workers. The book demonstrates how the new language and rhetoric of management emerged, and how it confronted and replaced the language of traditional capitalism: 'system' instead of 'individuals'; 'jobs' instead of 'natural rights'; 'planning' instead of 'free initiatives'.

Manufacturing Rationality can be read simultaneously as an historical account of the genesis of modern management, a chapter in the history of American capitalism, a critical analysis of industrial engineering, and as a sociology of (managerial) knowledge.

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Yehouda Shenhav is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Stanford University (1985) and an M.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the Israel Institute of Technology (1981). Shenhav taught at several universities in the United States, including Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Iowa. He served as Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University between 1995 and 1998.

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Editorial
Oxford University Press
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199250006
ISBN 13 
9780199250004
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
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