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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.

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Author:   Louis Galambos (The Johns Hopkins University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781421435879

ISBN 10:   142143587
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   26 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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