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The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940 - A Quantitative Study in Social Change (Paperback)
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The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940 - A Quantitative Study in Social Change (Paperback)
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Otiginally published in 1975. At the time that Louis Galambos
published The Public Image of Big Business in America in 1975,
America had matured into a bureaucratic state. The expression of
the military-industrial complex and big business grew so pervasive
that the postwar United States was defined in large part by its
citizens' participation in large-scale organizational structures.
Noticing this development, Galambos maintains that the "single most
significant phenomenon in modern American history is the emergence
of giant, complex organizations." Today, bureaucratic organizations
influence the day-to-day lives of most Americans-they gather taxes,
regulate businesses, provide services, administer welfare, provide
education, and on and on. These organizations are defined by their
hierarchical structure in which the power of decision-making is
allotted according to abstract rules that create impersonal
scenarios. Bureaucracies have developed as a result of
technological changes in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Based on the premise that these structures had a stronger influence
on modern America than any other single phenomenon, this book
explores the public's response to the growth of the power and
influence of bureaucracy from the years 1880 through 1930. What
results is an examination of the social perception of bureaucracy
and the development of bureaucratic culture.
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