Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780199250004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str.

Yehouda A. Shenhav

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Yehouda Shenhav rewrites business history in this magisterial account of the role of engineers in the American management revolution. That revolution, Shenhav demonstrates, was spearheaded by engineers, whose rational, calculated precepts of work organization depoliticized the relationship between labor and capital. Modern management's rhetorical claim to neutrality stands on this technical foundation. This elegant and compelling study undercuts conventional efficiency arguments about the rise of modern management.

O autorze

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 and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University between 1995 and 1998.