Managing for the next century -- or the last? -- Evolutionary and discursive histories of knowledge -- Federalist reality -- the pre-history of management -- The demise of federalist reality -- 'the birth of a nation' -- A new social contract -- industrial reality, a problem to manage -- The disciplinary world of L'employé -- The struggle of memory against forgetting : managerialist thought as a conceptual prison
Summary
Contemporary thinking about management is still frequently presented as a set of universal, eternal verities. In this fascinating book Roy Jacques presents a discursive history of industrial work relationships in the United States which powerfully demonstrates that they are not
