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Manufacturing the employee : management knowledge from the 19th to 21st centuries

Summary: Contemporary thinking about management is still frequently presented as a set of universal, eternal verities. In this book Roy Jacques presents a discursive history of industrial work relationships in the United States which powerfully demonstrates that they are not.

Record details

ISBN: 9781283880725
ISBN: 1283880725
ISBN: 1446221938
ISBN: 9781446221938
ISBN: 0803979150
ISBN: 9780803979154
ISBN: 1446265234
ISBN: 9781446265239
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 218 pages)
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Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-206) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- Managing for the Next Century -- or the Last?; Chapter 2 -- Evolutionary and Discursive Histories of Knowledge; Chapter 3 -- Federalist Reality -- the Pre-history of Management; Chapter 4 -- The Demise of Federalist Reality -- 'the Birth of a Nation'; Chapter 5 -- A New Social Contract -- Industrial Reality, a Problem to Manage; Chapter 6 -- The Disciplinary World of L'employé; Chapter 7 -- The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Managerialist Thought as a Conceptual Prison; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	English.