Awards

• Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1998
• Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1998.

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Sanford Jacoby analyzes welfare capitalism in magisterial fashion in his book Modern Manors... Jacoby concludes his book by suggesting that the success of firms like Microsoft and Wal-Mart give lie to the argument that paternalistic companies were effectively destroyed by the labor-friendly reforms of the New Deal... Jacoby's analysis underscores the efforts ... to bring work back into the perspective of social science and social criticism. -- Alan Wolfe The American Prospect A powerful and authoritative work that explores the hidden history of some of America's most celebrated companies... [An] impressive book. -- Nelson Lichtenstein New York Times Book Review Jacoby's book is beautifully written, lovingly crafted, and thoroughly researched. It is exquisitely sensitive to the multiplicity of elements that play out in the relations between workers and their employers over time... For its combination of novel arguments, nuanced insights, rigorous evidence, and a deep appreciation of the phenomenon being studied, this book should set the standard in our field. -- Daphne Gottlieb Taras Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations This is an excellent book. Jacoby has written an authoritative analysis. .. . A product of meticulous research and sound judgement, this volume is essential reading for all students of American labour history. -- Peter Fearon Labour History Review

Sanford Jacoby analyzes welfare capitalism in magisterial fashion in his book Modern Manors... Jacoby concludes his book by suggesting that the success of firms like Microsoft and Wal-Mart give lie to the argument that paternalistic companies were effectively destroyed by the labor-friendly reforms of the New Deal... Jacoby's analysis underscores the efforts ... to bring work back into the perspective of social science and social criticism. -- Alan Wolfe, The American Prospect A powerful and authoritative work that explores the hidden history of some of America's most celebrated companies... [An] impressive book. -- Nelson Lichtenstein, New York Times Book Review Jacoby's book is beautifully written, lovingly crafted, and thoroughly researched. It is exquisitely sensitive to the multiplicity of elements that play out in the relations between workers and their employers over time... For its combination of novel arguments, nuanced insights, rigorous evidence, and a deep appreciation of the phenomenon being studied, this book should set the standard in our field. -- Daphne Gottlieb Taras, Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations This is an excellent book. Jacoby has written an authoritative analysis. .. . A product of meticulous research and sound judgement, this volume is essential reading for all students of American labour history. -- Peter Fearon, Labour History Review

Winner of the 1998 Taft Labor History Award, School of Industrial and Labor Relations One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998 ""Sanford Jacoby analyzes welfare capitalism in magisterial fashion in his book Modern Manors... Jacoby concludes his book by suggesting that the success of firms like Microsoft and Wal-Mart give lie to the argument that paternalistic companies were effectively destroyed by the labor-friendly reforms of the New Deal... Jacoby's analysis underscores the efforts ... to bring work back into the perspective of social science and social criticism.""--Alan Wolfe, The American Prospect ""A powerful and authoritative work that explores the hidden history of some of America's most celebrated companies... [An] impressive book.""--Nelson Lichtenstein, New York Times Book Review ""Jacoby's book is beautifully written, lovingly crafted, and thoroughly researched. It is exquisitely sensitive to the multiplicity of elements that play out in the relations between workers and their employers over time... For its combination of novel arguments, nuanced insights, rigorous evidence, and a deep appreciation of the phenomenon being studied, this book should set the standard in our field.""--Daphne Gottlieb Taras, Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations ""This is an excellent book. Jacoby has written an authoritative analysis. .. . A product of meticulous research and sound judgement, this volume is essential reading for all students of American labour history.""--Peter Fearon, Labour History Review

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Sanford M. Jacoby is Professor of History, Management, and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, and the editor of Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers and Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy.

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