Employing Bureaucracy

Deftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, Employing Bureaucracy shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-oriented system to a bureaucratic one over the course of the 20th century. Jacoby explains how an unst

Sanford M. Jacoby

Contents: J.P. Walsh, A.P. Brief, Series Foreword. Introduction to the Revised Edition. The Way it Was: Factory Labor Before 1915. Systematic Management and Welfare Work. Vocational Guidance. Problems, Problem-Solvers, and a New Profession. Crisis and Change During World War I. A Different Decade: Moderation in the 1920s. The Response to Depression. Another Great Transformation, 1936-1945. From the 1950s to the Present.