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Autore |
Jacques Roy |
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Titolo |
Manufacturing the employee [[electronic resource] ] : management knowledge from the 19th to 21st centuries / / Roy Jacques |
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ISBN |
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1-4462-6523-4 |
1-283-88072-5 |
0-8039-7915-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 218 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Management - United States - History |
Management - Forecasting |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[192]-206) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Managing for the Next Century - or the Last?; Chapter 2 - Evolutionary and Discursive Histories of Knowledge; Chapter 3 - Federalist Reality - the Pre-history of Management; Chapter 4 - The Demise of Federalist Reality - 'the Birth of a Nation'; Chapter 5 - A New Social Contract - Industrial Reality, a Problem to Manage; Chapter 6 - The Disciplinary World of L'employé; Chapter 7 - The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting: Managerialist Thought as a Conceptual Prison; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Contemporary thinking about management is still frequently presented as a set of universal, eternal verities. In this book Roy Jacques presents a discursive history of industrial work relationships in the United States which powerfully demonstrates that they are not. |
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