COMPANY MAN: THE RISE AND FALL OF CORPORATE LIFE (SIGNED)

SAMPSON, Anthony.

ISBN 10: 000255271X / ISBN 13: 9780002552714

Published by Harper Collins, London,, 1995

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 354. Signed presentation copy: "For Fred Duffy with admiration and gratitude from the author, Anthony Sampson." Architect Frank Duffy is mentioned in the book on pages 266Ð268. Original publisher's cloth binding in lavender grey, lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket in glossy blue, lettered gold with an illustration by Volker Stater. Blue endpapers. ISBN:000255271X. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # C104178

Bibliographic Details

• Title: COMPANY MAN: THE RISE AND FALL OF CORPORATE LIFE (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Harper Collins, London,
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000255271X
• ISBN 13: 9780002552714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
  • Corporations
  • Britain
  • Business

About this title

Synopsis

This work tells the story of the evolution of the social phenomenon of the 20th century - company man. The business corporation has become not only the engine of economic power, but the dominant community in much of the industrial world. Its executives have become enclosed in their own hierarchies and bureaucracies which have dominated their careers and their families' lives. The book shows how this new breed emerged and developed across the world, through successive industrial changes, and how different versions of company men - in America, Europe and Asia - are now competing for survival. Anthony Sampson is the author of "The Anatomy of Britain", "The New Europeans", "The Sovereign State of ITT", "The Seven Sisters", "The Arms Bazaar", "The Money Lenders", "Black and Gold", "The Midas Touch" and "The Essential Anatomy of Britain".

From Publishers Weekly

In this provocative and incisive social history of the corporation, British journalist Sampson observes that the "organization man" of the 1950s and '60s?a loyal worker confident of annual raises and a growing pension?is virtually extinct. Today's company men and company women face insecurity in offices that seem placeless networks of telecommuters and data banks, with short-term specialists and consultants increasingly replacing lifetime employees. Drawing on an array of writers, including H. G. Wells, G. B. Shaw, Franz Kafka, Sinclair Lewis, Thorstein Veblen, Kurt Vonnegut and John Kenneth Galbraith, Sampson explores the often dehumanizing fabric of corporate life and charts the history of corporations from 17th-century European merchant companies and Rockefeller's Standard Oil to the present, with profiles of IBM, Microsoft, General Motors, Sony, Toyota and Shell, among others. While middle managers and clerical employees are being squeezed and are more vulnerable to layoffs, top bosses have become more powerful and better-paid than ever, and Sampson urges safeguards to protect both shareholders and employees against the lack of corporate accountability.
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