The Public Image Of Big Business In America 1880 1940

Author : Louis Galambos,Barbara Barrow Spence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2019
Category : Big business
ISBN : OCLC:1317376326

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The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940 by Louis Galambos,Barbara Barrow Spence Pdf

Otiginally published in 1975. At the time that Louis Galambos published The Public Image of Big Business in America in 1975, America had matured into a bureaucratic state. The expression of the military-industrial complex and big business grew so pervasive that the postwar United States was defined in large part by its citizens' participation in large-scale organizational structures. Noticing this development, Galambos maintains that the "single most significant phenomenon in modern American history is the emergence of giant, complex organizations." Today, bureaucratic organizations influence the day-to-day lives of most Americans--they gather taxes, regulate businesses, provide services, administer welfare, provide education, and on and on. These organizations are defined by their hierarchical structure in which the power of decision-making is allotted according to abstract rules that create impersonal scenarios. Bureaucracies have developed as a result of technological changes in the second half of the nineteenth century. Based on the premise that these structures had a stronger influence on modern America than any other single phenomenon, this book explores the public's response to the growth of the power and influence of bureaucracy from the years 1880 through 1930. What results is an examination of the social perception of bureaucracy and the development of bureaucratic culture.

Author : Louis Galambos
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142143587X

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The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940 by Louis Galambos Pdf

What results is an examination of the social perception of bureaucracy and the development of bureaucratic culture.

Author : Louis P. Galambos,Barbara B. Spence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835743314

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The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940 by Louis P. Galambos,Barbara B. Spence Pdf

Author : Louis Galambos
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421435886

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The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940 by Louis Galambos Pdf

Otiginally published in 1975. At the time that Louis Galambos published The Public Image of Big Business in America in 1975, America had matured into a bureaucratic state. The expression of the military-industrial complex and big business grew so pervasive that the postwar United States was defined in large part by its citizens' participation in large-scale organizational structures. Noticing this development, Galambos maintains that the "single most significant phenomenon in modern American history is the emergence of giant, complex organizations." Today, bureaucratic organizations influence the day-to-day lives of most Americans—they gather taxes, regulate businesses, provide services, administer welfare, provide education, and on and on. These organizations are defined by their hierarchical structure in which the power of decision-making is allotted according to abstract rules that create impersonal scenarios. Bureaucracies have developed as a result of technological changes in the second half of the nineteenth century. Based on the premise that these structures had a stronger influence on modern America than any other single phenomenon, this book explores the public's response to the growth of the power and influence of bureaucracy from the years 1880 through 1930. What results is an examination of the social perception of bureaucracy and the development of bureaucratic culture.

Author : Richard L. McCormick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195364347

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Party Period and Public Policy by Richard L. McCormick Pdf

Author : Glenn Porter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118818695

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The Rise of Big Business by Glenn Porter Pdf

The fundamental and explosive changes in the U.S. economy and its business system from 1860 to 1920 continue to fascinate and engage historians, economists, and sociologists. While many disagreements persist about the motivations of the actors, most scholars roughly agree on the central shifts in technologies and markets that called forth big business. Recent scholarship, however, has revealed important new insights into the changing cultural values and sensibilities of Americans who lived during the time, on women in business, on the ties between the emerging corporations and other American institutions, on the nature of competition among giant firms, and on the dawn of modern advertising and consumerism. This vast accumulation of notable new work on the social concept and consequences of economic change in that era has prompted Glenn Porter to recast numerous portions of The Rise of Big Business, one of Harlan Davidson’s most successful titles ever, in this, the third edition. Those familiar with this classic text will appreciate the expanded coverage of topics beyond the fray of regulation and the political dimensions of the emergence of concentrated enterprise, namely the influence of the rise of big business on social history. An entirely new bank of photographs and illustrations rounds out the latest edition of our enduringly popular title, one perfect for supplementary reading in a variety of courses including the U.S. history survey, the history of American business, and specialized courses in social history and the Gilded Age.

Author : Naomi R. Lamoreaux,William J. Novak
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674977716

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Corporations and American Democracy by Naomi R. Lamoreaux,William J. Novak Pdf

Recent Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked disagreement about the role of corporations in American democracy. Bringing together scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides essential grounding for today’s policy debates.

Author : Gabriel Abend
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691171128

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The Moral Background by Gabriel Abend Pdf

In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s. According to Abend, morality consists of three levels: moral and immoral behavior, or the behavioral level; moral understandings and norms, or the normative level; and the moral background, which includes what moral concepts exist in a society, what moral methods can be used, what reasons can be given, and what objects can be morally evaluated at all. This background underlies the behavioral and normative levels; it supports, facilitates, and enables them. Through this perspective, Abend historically examines the work of numerous business ethicists and organizations—such as Protestant ministers, business associations, and business schools—and identifies two types of moral background. "Standards of Practice" is characterized by its scientific worldview, moral relativism, and emphasis on individuals' actions and decisions. The "Christian Merchant" type is characterized by its Christian worldview, moral objectivism, and conception of a person's life as a unity. The Moral Background offers both an original account of the history of business ethics and a novel framework for understanding and investigating morality in general.

Author : Alfred D. Chandler,Franco Amatori,Takashi Hikino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521663474

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Big Business and the Wealth of Nations by Alfred D. Chandler,Franco Amatori,Takashi Hikino Pdf

Written in nontechnical terms, Big Business and the Wealth of Nations explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies in the twentieth century. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and centrally planned economies from the late nineteenth century, when big businesses first appeared in American and West European manufacturing, to the present. These essays, written by internationally known historians and economists, help one to understand the essential role and functions of big businesses, past and present.

Author : Christopher J. Schmitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521557712

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The Growth of Big Business in the United States and Western Europe, 1850-1939 by Christopher J. Schmitz Pdf

This is the first available introductory, comparative account of the rise of giant business corporations in America and Europe in the century before WW2. The book discusses the evolution of firms like Ford, Exxon, Unilever and Siemens.

Author : Greg Urban
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812209716

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Corporations and Citizenship by Greg Urban Pdf

President Theodore Roosevelt once proclaimed, "Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions, and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions." But while corporations are ostensibly regulated by citizens through their governments, the firms in turn regulate many aspects of social and political life for individuals beyond their own employees and the communities that support them. Corporations are endowed with many of the same rights as citizens, such as freedom of speech, but are not themselves typically constituted around ideals of national belonging and democracy. In the wake of the global financial collapse of 2008, the question of what relationship corporations should have to governing institutions has only increased in urgency. As a democratically sanctioned social institution, should a corporation operate primarily toward profit accumulation or should its proper goal be to provision society with needed goods and services? Corporations and Citizenship addresses the role of modern for-profit corporations as a distinctive kind of social formation within democratic national states. Scholars of legal studies, business ethics, politics, history, and anthropology bring their perspectives to bear on particular case studies, such as Enron and Wall Street, as well as broader issues of belonging, social responsibility, for-profit higher education, and regulation. Together, these essays establish a complex and detailed understanding of the ways corporations contribute positively to human well-being as well as the dangers that they pose. Contributors: Joel Bakan, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Cynthia Estlund, Louis Galambos, Rosalie Genova, Peter Gourevitch, Karen Ho, Nien-hê Hsieh, Walter Licht, Jonathan R. Macey, Hirokazu Miyazaki, Lynn Sharp Paine, Katharina Pistor, Amy J. Sepinwall, Jeffery Smith, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Greg Urban.

Author : Mark A. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226764658

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American Business and Political Power by Mark A. Smith Pdf

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional wisdom on its head. In a systematic analysis of postwar lawmaking, Smith reveals that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing. This surprising conclusion holds because the types of issues that lead businesses to band together—such as tax rates, air pollution, and product liability—also receive the most media attention. The ensuing debates give citizens the information they need to hold their representatives accountable and make elections a choice between contrasting policy programs. Rather than succumbing to corporate America, Smith argues, representatives paradoxically become more responsive to their constituents when facing a united corporate front. Corporations gain the most influence over legislation when they work with organizations such as think tanks to shape Americans' beliefs about what government should and should not do.

Author : Robert E. Mutch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199340026

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Buying the Vote by Robert E. Mutch Pdf

Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates in this fascinating book, these were not always controversial matters. The tenets that corporations do not count as citizens, and that self-government functions best by reducing political inequality, were commonly heldup until the early years of the twentieth century, when Congress recognized the strength of these principles by prohibiting corporations from making campaign contributions, passing a disclosure law, and setting limits on campaign expenditures. But conservative opposition began to appear in the 1970s. Well represented on the Supreme Court, opponents of campaign finance reform won decisions granting First Amendment rights to corporations, and declaring the goal of reducing political inequality to be unconstitutional. Buying the Vote analyzes the rise and decline of campaign finance reform by tracking the evolution of both the ways in which presidential campaigns have been funded since the late nineteenth century. Through close examinations of major Supreme Court decisions, Mutch shows how the Court has fashioned a new and profoundly inegalitarian definition of American democracy. Drawing on rarely studied archival materials on presidential campaign finance funds, Buying the Vote is an illuminating look at politics, money, and power in America.

Author : Kenneth Lipartito,David B. Sicilia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191530807

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Constructing Corporate America by Kenneth Lipartito,David B. Sicilia Pdf

Why and how has the business corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American society? The essays here take up this question, offering a fresh perspective on the ways in which the business corporation has assumed an enduring place in the modern capitalist economy, and how it has affected American society, culture and politics over the past two centuries. The authors challenge standard assumptions about the business corporation's emergence and performance in the United States over the past two centuries. Reviewing in depth the different theoretical and historiographical traditions that have treated the corporation, the volume seeks a new departure that can more fully explain this crucial institution of capitalism. Rejecting assertions that the corporation is dead, the essays show that in fact it has survived and even thrived down to the present in part because of the ways in which it has related to its social, political and cultural environmental. In doing so, the book breaks with older explanations ground in technology and economics, and treats the corporation for the first time as a fully social institution. Drawing on a variety of social theories and approaches, the essays help to point the way toward future studies of this powerful and enduring institution, offering a new periodization and a new set of question for scholars to explore. The range of essays engages the legal and political position of the corporation, the ways in which the corporation has been shaped by and shaped American culture, the controversies over corporate regulation and corporate power, and the efforts of minority and disadvantaged groups to gain access to the resources and opportunities that corporations control.

Author : Kevin Schmiesing
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498539258

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Merchants and Ministers by Kevin Schmiesing Pdf

Merchants and Ministers explores the relationship between businesspeople and clergy in the United States from the colonial period to the present. This book traces the contours of American history by placing anecdotal detail in the context of general developments in commerce and Christianity.