The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940

A Quantitative Study in Social Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3587-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Otiginally published in 1975. At the time that Louis Galambos published The Public Image of Big Business in America in 1975, America had matured into a bureaucratic state. The expression of the military-industrial complex and big business grew so pervasive that the postwar United States was defined in large part by its citizens' participation in large-scale organizational structures. Noticing this development, Galambos maintains that the "single most significant phenomenon in modern American history is the emergence of giant, complex organizations." Today, bureaucratic organizations influence the day-to-day lives of most Americans—they gather taxes, regulate businesses, provide services, administer welfare, provide education, and on and on. These organizations are defined by their hierarchical structure in which the power of decision-making is allotted according to abstract rules that create impersonal scenarios. Bureaucracies have developed as a result of technological changes in the second half of the nineteenth century. Based on the premise that these structures had a stronger influence on modern America than any other single phenomenon, this book explores the public's response to the growth of the power and influence of bureaucracy from the years 1880 through 1930. What results is an examination of the social perception of bureaucracy and the development of bureaucratic culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galambos, Louis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Part I. Context and Method
Chapter 1. The Large-Scale Organization in Modern America
Chapter 2. Research Technique: Content Analysis Described and Debated
Part II. First Generation: A Study in the Sources of Conflict
Chapter 3. An Uneasy Equilibrium, 1879-1892
Chapter 4. Crisis, 1893-1901
Part III. Second Generation: A Study in the Process of Accommodation
Chapter 5. The Progressive Cycle, 1902-1914
Chapter 6. War and the Corporate Culture, 1915-1919
Part IV. Third Generation: A Study in the Anatomy of Equilibrium
Chapter 7. Continuity and Change, 1920-1929
Chapter 8. Toward a Stable Equilibrium, 1930-1940
Part V. Conclusions, Speculations, and Afterword
Chapter 9. The Middle Cultures and the Organizational Revolution
Appendix
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Galambos, Louis
Louis Galambos is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.

Louis Galambos is a research professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World and The Creative Society—and the Price Americans Paid for It.