Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The rise of the factory system in Britain: efficiency or exploitation?; The coevolution of technology and organisation in the transition to the factory system; Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises; Knowledge, information and organisational structures; Technological change, transaction costs, and the industrial organisation of cotton production in the US South, 1950_1970
Summary
This book takes a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to the issue of organization and authority in the modern corporation and includes contributions from scholars in the US, Germany and Japan
