Larry G Gerber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1009747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry G Gerber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry G |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerber |
| SIGNATURE | GERBER L G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Instrumental University
Ethan Schrum's book is an important contribution to the literature on the development of American research universities after World War II. He offers a useful corrective to the assumption that the increasing corporatization of American universities in recent decades is due solely to the rise of neoliberalism and to the imposition by constituencies beyond the campus, particularly conservative politicians and business leaders, of a narrow economica…
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal justification for granting teachers power in making educational decisions. In the twentieth century,…
Individualism Transformed
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Corporatism and State Theory
Corporatism and State Theory
Over the last twenty years political scientists and sociologists concerned primarily with western European developments since 1945 have attempted to define corporatism as an ideal model for use in analyzing this region's political economies. Several influential American historians in recent years have also employed the concept of corporatism in examining the development of the modern American political economy. Although these historians have not …
The National Industrial Recovery Act in Comparative Perspective
In both the United States and Britain, the Great Depression generated widespread interest in the possibility of utilizing state power to foster the development of corporatist institutions to restore order and stability to economic life. However, whereas Britian made only piecemeal efforts to implement corporatist mechanisms in a few selected industries, the United States proved willing, at least temporarily, to implement a far more thoroughgoing …
A Reply to William Becker
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To Foster the Spirit of Professionalism
welcome contribution to the history of science in the South during the period since the Civil War. . . . By considering the academies in the larger context of scientific professionalism, South and North, has produced a surprisingly wide-ranging and informative study. This is overall a judicious and carefully researched work. The writing is straightforward and admirably clear, while the topic is effectively organized and presented. The book is a c…
Political Science in America
Journal Article Political Science in America: Oral Histories of a Discipline. Ed. by Michael A. Baer, Malcolm E. Jewell, and Lee Sigelman. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. vi + 250 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-1758-5. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8131-0805-5.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, …
Manufacturing Knowledge
Journal Article Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. By Richard Gillespie. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 282 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-521-40358-8.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 710, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080155 Pu…
The United States and Canadian National Industrial Conferences of 1919
(1991). The United States and Canadian National Industrial Conferences of 1919: A comparative analysis. Labor History: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 42-65
The American Search for Economic Justice
Journal Article The American Search for Economic Justice. By Peter D. McClelland. (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1990. xvi + 502 pp. $39.95.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1039–1040, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078814 Published: 01 December 1991
Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner
Journal Article Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner: Economics and Dissent in an Age of Optimism. By Loren J. Okroi. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. xiv + 275 pp. $29.50.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 658–659, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908105 Published: 01 Septem…
Lister Hill
Journal Article Lister Hill: Statesman from the South. By Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xv + 375 pp. $24.95.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 658–659, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887972 Published: 01 September 1988
Corporatism in Comparative Perspective
Historians and social scientists have often described modern America as a uniquely pluralist society in which a collective bargaining model of industrial relations won an early triumph over other conceptions of labor relations. Professor Gerber challenges this traditional view. Comparing American and British thinking and policies relating to labor relations during and just after the First World War, Professor Gerber concludes that, in large part …
The Limits of Liberalism
The Limits of Liberalism
Journal Article The Limits of Liberalism: Josephus Daniels, Henry Stimson, Bernard Baruch, Donald Richberg, Felix Frankfurter and the Development of the Modern American Political Economy. By Larry G. Gerber. (New York: New York University Press, 1983. ix + 425 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00.) Get access Otis L. Graham Otis L. Graham University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Baruch Plan and the Origins of the Cold War
The Baruch Plan and the Origins of the Cold War
In April 1945, when Secretary of War Henry Stimson informed newly installed President Harry Truman of the existence of America's secret project for the construction of an atomic bomb, he observed that the development of the atomic bomb entailed both great dangers and great opportunities for the United States and the world. Stimson warned that if the establishment of an effective international system for controlling atomic energy proved impossible…
Political Science in America
Journal Article Political Science in America: Oral Histories of a Discipline. Ed. by Michael A. Baer, Malcolm E. Jewell, and Lee Sigelman. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. vi + 250 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-1758-5. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8131-0805-5.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, …
Manufacturing Knowledge
Journal Article Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. By Richard Gillespie. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 282 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-521-40358-8.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 710, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080155 Pu…
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal justification for granting teachers power in making educational decisions. In the twentieth century,…
Corporatism in Comparative Perspective
Historians and social scientists have often described modern America as a uniquely pluralist society in which a collective bargaining model of industrial relations won an early triumph over other conceptions of labor relations. Professor Gerber challenges this traditional view. Comparing American and British thinking and policies relating to labor relations during and just after the First World War, Professor Gerber concludes that, in large part …
The Instrumental University
Ethan Schrum's book is an important contribution to the literature on the development of American research universities after World War II. He offers a useful corrective to the assumption that the increasing corporatization of American universities in recent decades is due solely to the rise of neoliberalism and to the imposition by constituencies beyond the campus, particularly conservative politicians and business leaders, of a narrow economica…
Corporatism and State Theory
Over the last twenty years political scientists and sociologists concerned primarily with western European developments since 1945 have attempted to define corporatism as an ideal model for use in analyzing this region's political economies. Several influential American historians in recent years have also employed the concept of corporatism in examining the development of the modern American political economy. Although these historians have not …
The National Industrial Recovery Act in Comparative Perspective
In both the United States and Britain, the Great Depression generated widespread interest in the possibility of utilizing state power to foster the development of corporatist institutions to restore order and stability to economic life. However, whereas Britian made only piecemeal efforts to implement corporatist mechanisms in a few selected industries, the United States proved willing, at least temporarily, to implement a far more thoroughgoing …
Lister Hill
Journal Article Lister Hill: Statesman from the South. By Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xv + 375 pp. $24.95.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 658–659, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887972 Published: 01 September 1988
The Baruch Plan and the Origins of the Cold War
The Baruch Plan and the Origins of the Cold War
In April 1945, when Secretary of War Henry Stimson informed newly installed President Harry Truman of the existence of America's secret project for the construction of an atomic bomb, he observed that the development of the atomic bomb entailed both great dangers and great opportunities for the United States and the world. Stimson warned that if the establishment of an effective international system for controlling atomic energy proved impossible…
The Limits of Liberalism
Journal Article The Limits of Liberalism: Josephus Daniels, Henry Stimson, Bernard Baruch, Donald Richberg, Felix Frankfurter and the Development of the Modern American Political Economy. By Larry G. Gerber. (New York: New York University Press, 1983. ix + 425 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00.) Get access Otis L. Graham Otis L. Graham University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Limits of Liberalism
Lister Hill
Journal Article Lister Hill: Statesman from the South. By Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xv + 375 pp. $24.95.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 658–659, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887972 Published: 01 September 1988
Corporatism in Comparative Perspective
Historians and social scientists have often described modern America as a uniquely pluralist society in which a collective bargaining model of industrial relations won an early triumph over other conceptions of labor relations. Professor Gerber challenges this traditional view. Comparing American and British thinking and policies relating to labor relations during and just after the First World War, Professor Gerber concludes that, in large part …
Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner
Journal Article Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner: Economics and Dissent in an Age of Optimism. By Loren J. Okroi. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. xiv + 275 pp. $29.50.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 658–659, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908105 Published: 01 Septem…
The United States and Canadian National Industrial Conferences of 1919
(1991). The United States and Canadian National Industrial Conferences of 1919: A comparative analysis. Labor History: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 42-65
The American Search for Economic Justice
Journal Article The American Search for Economic Justice. By Peter D. McClelland. (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1990. xvi + 502 pp. $39.95.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1039–1040, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078814 Published: 01 December 1991
Political Science in America
Journal Article Political Science in America: Oral Histories of a Discipline. Ed. by Michael A. Baer, Malcolm E. Jewell, and Lee Sigelman. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. vi + 250 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-1758-5. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8131-0805-5.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, …
Manufacturing Knowledge
Journal Article Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. By Richard Gillespie. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x + 282 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-521-40358-8.) Get access Larry G. Gerber Larry G. Gerber Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 710, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080155 Pu…
A Reply to William Becker
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
To Foster the Spirit of Professionalism
welcome contribution to the history of science in the South during the period since the Civil War. . . . By considering the academies in the larger context of scientific professionalism, South and North, has produced a surprisingly wide-ranging and informative study. This is overall a judicious and carefully researched work. The writing is straightforward and admirably clear, while the topic is effectively organized and presented. The book is a c…
The National Industrial Recovery Act in Comparative Perspective
In both the United States and Britain, the Great Depression generated widespread interest in the possibility of utilizing state power to foster the development of corporatist institutions to restore order and stability to economic life. However, whereas Britian made only piecemeal efforts to implement corporatist mechanisms in a few selected industries, the United States proved willing, at least temporarily, to implement a far more thoroughgoing …
Corporatism and State Theory
Corporatism and State Theory
Over the last twenty years political scientists and sociologists concerned primarily with western European developments since 1945 have attempted to define corporatism as an ideal model for use in analyzing this region's political economies. Several influential American historians in recent years have also employed the concept of corporatism in examining the development of the modern American political economy. Although these historians have not …
Individualism Transformed
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal justification for granting teachers power in making educational decisions. In the twentieth century,…
The Instrumental University
Ethan Schrum's book is an important contribution to the literature on the development of American research universities after World War II. He offers a useful corrective to the assumption that the increasing corporatization of American universities in recent decades is due solely to the rise of neoliberalism and to the imposition by constituencies beyond the campus, particularly conservative politicians and business leaders, of a narrow economica…
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