Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

by Charles Perrow

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:069108954X

ISBN13:9780691089546

Release Date:April 2002

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Business Business & Investing Economic Conditions Economic History Economic Theory Economics Free Enterprise Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Economy Political Science

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