Authority and Efficiency
The Labor Market and the Managerial Revolution of the Late Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10097596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Clark (0000-0001-6972-4478), G J Clark (0000-0002-0960-9993, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1069-1083 |
| Publication date | 1984-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002205070003309x |
| OpenAlex | W2136741847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
The managerial revolution resulted in the concentration of production decisions in the hands of management. Radical economists and historians have disputed the conventional view that these changes in work organization were necessary to increase production efficiency. Yet curiously there seem to be few issues of fact in dispute between the radical and the conventional accounts. I offer here an interpretation of the radical position which explains why this is so, and why profitable and efficient organizations of work will differ in capitalist economies. The argument hinges on the conditions under which workers were able to act collectively
Argument (complex analysis · Economics · Interpretation (philosophy · Market economy · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Position (finance · Production (economics · Work (physics · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
Schooling in capitalist America
The Visible Hand
The Logic of Collective Action
Production Relations, Labor Productivity, and Choice of Technique
Structural Transformation and the Demand for New Labor in Advanced Economies
The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
Employer Concentration in Local Labor Markets
Productivity and Economic Incentives
Co-operative Production
The Decline of the Scottish Cotton Industry 1860–1914
Managers and Workers
General-Equilibrium Models in Economic History
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2023 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |