Organizing America : : Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism / / Charles Perrow.
American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technologi...
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Perrow, Charles, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Organizing America : Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism / Charles Perrow. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2002 1 online resource (272 p.) : 2 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Preparing the Ground -- Chapter 3. Toward Hierarchy: The Mills of Manayunk -- Chapter 4. Toward Hierarchy and Networks -- Chapter 5. Railroads, the Second Big Business -- Chapter 6. The Organizational Imprinting -- Chapter 7. Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix. Alternative Theories Where Organizations Are the Dependent Variable -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational history of nineteenth-century America, Yale sociologist Charles Perrow says no. He shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. Critics railed against the nationalizing of the economy, against corporations' monopoly powers, political subversion, environmental destruction, and "wage slavery." How did a nation committed to individual freedom, family firms, public goods, and decentralized power become transformed in one century? Bountiful resources, a mass market, and the industrial revolution gave entrepreneurs broad scope. In Europe, the state and the church kept private organizations small and required consideration of the public good. In America, the courts and business-steeped legislators removed regulatory constraints over the century, centralizing industry and privatizing the railroads. Despite resistance, the corporate form became the model for the next century. Bureaucratic structure spread to government and the nonprofits. Writing in the tradition of Max Weber, Perrow concludes that the driving force of our history is not technology, politics, or culture, but large, bureaucratic organizations. Perrow, the author of award-winning books on organizations, employs his witty, trenchant, and graceful style here to maximum effect. Colorful vignettes abound: today's headlines echo past battles for unchecked organizational freedom; socially responsible alternatives that were tried are explored along with the historical contingencies that sent us down one road rather than another. No other book takes the role of organizations in America's development as seriously. The resultant insights presage a new historical genre. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Big business United States History 19th century. Organizational behavior United States History 19th century. Social change United States History 19th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691123158 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400825080 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400825080 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400825080.jpg |
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