Manufacturing the Employee: Management Knowledge from the 19th to 21st Centuries

By Roy Jacques

Book Overview

1. Managing for the Next Century--Or the Last? / 2. Evolutionary and Discursive Histories of Knowledge / 3. "Federalist" Reality--The Prehistory of Management / 4. The Demise of a Federalist Reality--The Birth of a Nation / 5. A "New Social Contract"--Industrial Reality, a Problem to Manage Coalescing Conditions of Possibility / 6. The Disciplinary World of L′employ / 7. The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Managerialist Thought as a Conceptual Prison / Index / References

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803979169
• ISBN13: 9780803979161
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Antidote to Fad of the Month

An enjoyable book based on sound research. It looks at the history of management ideas and helps us better appreciate the whole subject of management. A historical perspective provides a welcome antidote to the cult of the new and the fad of the month.