Manufacturing Rationality

The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution

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ID7099532
AuthorsYehouda Shenhav (corresponding author)
Year2002
Pages256
Publication date2002-03-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueManufacturing Rationality (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199250004.001.0001
OpenAlexW4231805703
ISBN9780199250004
Open LibraryOL7403796M
LanguageEN
Citations received21

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 of America in the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th 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'. It 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

Capitalism · Code (set theory · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Industrial Revolution · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Computer Science · History of Computing Technologies · Law · Management Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Industrial engineering · Management Science

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