Manufacturing the employee : management knowledge from the 19th to 21st centuries / / Roy Jacques

• Autore: Jacques Roy
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 218 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.3
• Soggetto topico: Personnel management - History; Management - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.[192]-206) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Manufacturing the employee
• ISBN: 1-4462-6523-4; 1-283-88072-5; 0-8039-7915-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822158403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II