LEADER 04742nam 2200865 a 450 001 9910172226703321 005 20210921032226.0 010 $a1-4008-0690-9 010 $a1-4008-2227-0 010 $a9786612753237 010 $a1-282-75323-1 010 $a1-4008-1324-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822270 035 $a(CKB)111056486503582 035 $a(EBL)668951 035 $a(OCoLC)51566888 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000442560 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12146408 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442560 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10453508 035 $a(PQKB)11216317 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247833 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191161 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247833 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10200707 035 $a(PQKB)11452306 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42985 035 $a(DE-B1597)453514 035 $a(OCoLC)1029820505 035 $a(OCoLC)979749080 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822270 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668951 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035840 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275323 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668951 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486503582 100 $a19960430d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSocializing capital $ethe rise of the large industrial corporation in America /$fWilliam G. Roy 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (355 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-01034-X 311 0 $a0-691-04353-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-317) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tTables --$tPreface --$tCHAPTER ONE. Introduction --$tCHAPTER TWO. A Quantitative Test of Efficiency Theory --$tCHAPTER THREE. The Corporation as Public and Private Enterprise --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Railroads: The Corporation's Institutional Wellspring --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Auxiliary Institutions: The Stock Market, Investment Banking, and Brokers --$tCHAPTER SIX. Statutory Corporate Law, 1880-1913 --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Prelude to a Revolution --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. American Industry Incorporates --$tCHAPTER NINE. Conclusion: A Political Sociology of the Large Corporation --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aEver since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life. Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Departing from the received wisdom, which sees the big, vertically integrated corporation as the result of technological development and market growth that required greater efficiency in larger scale firms, Roy focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power. The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals and then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, and investment banks into a mechanism for the organization of railroads. Finally, and most particularly, he analyzes its flowering into the realm of manufacturing, when at the turn of this century, many of the same giants that still dominate the American economic landscape were created. Thus, the corporation altered manufacturing entities so that they were each owned by many people instead of by single individuals as had previously been the case. 606 $aBig business$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCorporations$zUnited States$xFinance$xHistory 606 $aIndustrial policy$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCapitalism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSocial structure$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRich people$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aBig business$xHistory. 615 0$aCorporations$xFinance$xHistory. 615 0$aIndustrial policy$xHistory. 615 0$aCapitalism$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial structure$xHistory. 615 0$aRich people$xHistory. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences)$xHistory. 676 $a338.6/44/0973 700 $aRoy$b William G.$f1946-$0861821 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172226703321 996 $aSocializing capital$91923395 997 $aUNINA