Manufacturing the Employee: Management Knowledge from the 19th to 21st Centuries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803979161)

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

A central concern is to show that current common-sense′ in management forms an historically and culturally specific way of thinking about work and society which is often inappropriate for managing for the twenty-first century′. The author is equally interested in revealing the cultural basis for American management ideas, currently exported round the world as an objective science, disconnected from its cultural and historical roots.

Author: Jacques
ISBN-10: 0803979169
ISBN-13: 9780803979161
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 02/27/1996
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.36w x 0.55d