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- catalog abstract ""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 in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11981853.
- catalog contributor b11981854.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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 in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""References": p. [222]-235.".
- catalog description "1. Prophets of Management: American Engineers between Industrial Growth and Labor Unrest -- 2. Engineering Rationality: 'System Shall Replace Chaos' -- 3. Colonizing the Mind: The Translation of Systematization to the Management of Organizations -- 4. Contested Rationality: Disturbances, Controversies, and Opposition to Management Systems -- 5. Engineers, Labor Politics, and American Exceptionalism before 1900 -- 6. Taming the Shrew: Systems and Labor Politics during the Progressive Period -- 7. Deus ex Machina: Concluding Remarks -- Appendix. Description of the Engineering-Management Literature.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "247 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Manufacturing rationality.".
- catalog identifier "0198296304 (hb.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Manufacturing rationality.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Manufacturing rationality.".
- catalog subject "658.5 21".
- catalog subject "Industrial engineering.".
- catalog subject "Management science.".
- catalog subject "T56 .S413 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Prophets of Management: American Engineers between Industrial Growth and Labor Unrest -- 2. Engineering Rationality: 'System Shall Replace Chaos' -- 3. Colonizing the Mind: The Translation of Systematization to the Management of Organizations -- 4. Contested Rationality: Disturbances, Controversies, and Opposition to Management Systems -- 5. Engineers, Labor Politics, and American Exceptionalism before 1900 -- 6. Taming the Shrew: Systems and Labor Politics during the Progressive Period -- 7. Deus ex Machina: Concluding Remarks -- Appendix. Description of the Engineering-Management Literature.".
- catalog title "Manufacturing rationality : the engineering foundations of the managerial revolution / Yehouda Shenhav.".
- catalog type "text".