Work and Authority in Industry

Managerial Ideologies in the Course of Industrialization

Bibliographic Data

ID20021742
AuthorsReinhard Bendix, Mauro F Guillén (0000-0003-3517-7319)
Year2001
Publication date2001-04-30
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWork and Authority in Industry (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEuropean Organization for Nuclear Research (PUBLISHER • CH)
OpenAlexW258410568
Open LibraryOL36747062M
ISBN9781351298957
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDvT33DwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received80

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 central notion, that the behavior of the capitalist class may be more important than the behavior of the working class in determining the course of events, is now widely accepted. The book explores industrialization, management, and ideological appeals; entrepreneurial ideologies in England's early phase of industrialization; entrepreneurial ideologies in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia; the bureaucratization of economic enterprises; and the American experience with -industrialization. This essential text will interest those in the fields of political science, industrial relations, management studies, as well as comparative sociologists and historians

Bureaucracy · Ideology · Industrialisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Working class · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Authority · Comparative industrial relations · Comparative management · General · History · Industrial management · Industrial relations · Industrialization · Labor movement · Management · Social classes · Social conflict · Social Science