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Manufacturing Rationality - The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution (Paperback, Revised)
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Manufacturing Rationality - The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution (Paperback, Revised)
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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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