Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917

by Gerald Berk and Professor Gerald Berk

Book Overview

"Gerald Berk's Alternative Tracks is a lean but provocative, timely, insightful, and forcefully written challenge to the conventional wisdom about industrial America's political economy". -- Review of Politics

At the heart of Alternative Tracks is the historical relationship between democracy. and the modern corporation. Gerald Berk uses the case of the railroad industry to show that industrial centralization and corporate hierarchy did not follow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801856361
• ISBN13: 9780801856365
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"