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

By Roy Jacques

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803979169
• ISBN13: 9780803979161
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications UK
• 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.