Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution - Hardcover

Shenhav, Yehouda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198296304 ISBN 13: 9780198296300

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 of management and the origin of managerial rationality in the United States.

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About the Author:

Yehouda Shenhav is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Stanford University (1985) and an M.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the Israel Institute of Technology (1981). Shenhav taught at several universities in the United States, including Stanford University, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Iowa. He served as Head of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University between 1995 and 1998.

Review:

"Yehouda Shenhav shows that the American system of management required elaborate social construction. Managers had to justify their existence vis avis owners and workers, and it took a great deal of effort to 'normalize' their social power. This book makes an important critical contribution to our understanding of how the large corporation emerged in the U.S and deserves to be read by anyone interested in the origins of Americans 'managerialism."--Neil Fligstein

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0198296304
• ISBN 13: 9780198296300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256