Introduction Paul L. Robertson
1. The rise of the factory system in Britain: Efficiency of exploitation? S.R.H. Jones, University of Dundee, UK
2. The co-evolution of technology and organisation in the transition to the factory system Richard N. Langlois, University of Connecticut, USA
3. Class structures and the firm: The interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist environments
Thomas Welskopp, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
4. Knowledge, information and organisational structures P.P. Saviotti, Universite Pierre Mendes,-France, Grenoble, France
5. Technological change, transaction costs and the industrial organisation of Cotton Production in the US South: 1950-1970 Lee J. Alston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
6. The maintenance of professional authority: the case of physicians and hospitals in the United States Deborah A. Savage, Southern Connecticut State University, USA and Paul L. Robertson
7. Men and monotony: Fraternalism as a managerial strategy at the Ford Motor Company Wayne A. Lewchuk, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
8. Management and labour in German Chemical Companies before World War I Sachio Kaku, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
9. Buddenbrooks revisited: The firm and entrepreneurial family in Germany during the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries Dirk Schumann, Universitat Bielefield, Germany