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Book SynopsisIn the last hundred years of industrial advancement, a great deal of scientific progress has been made in the field of efficiency studies. Known as human resources management among those who study these things, the main quest has always been how to control human thoughts and actions so that everything works to the maximum benefit of those who control these human resources. Accordingly, the most efficient system is one that controls the human resources by eliminating the human part and turning them into pure resources. In other words, their ultimate organizational goal is to transform people into things. This is the quest of all efficiency experts and human resources managers and what is commonly called organizational behavior. This book is about the two best historical examples of such efficiently-run resource management.
Trade Review…Frightening. -- Timothy Flack, formerly of Stars & Stripes
In so much as people are relegated to numbers either for a specific purpose or no purpose at all, they are dehumanized. And while the method used to dehumanize people may or may not lend itself to judicial processes, political and such, the fact remains that in such circumstances, consumers are being thought of and used in a way that does not consider their ability to perceive humanity….To my astonishment, I was swayed to agree with the author. -- Alfonso Davis
Stunning, provocative, wonderfully appropriate in [its] aptly compressed expression of the central, radical, profoundly original, and brilliant themes developed…. Will stand the test of time as magisterial monuments of the sociological imagination. -- Richard Dowling, American History and English Teacher, University of Maryland University College
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Welcome to Auschwitz, USA Chapter 2. Our Daily Deaths, Our Daily Bread Chapter 3. Partners in Crime [Against Humanity] Chapter 4. Auschwitz Dies, America Sleeps Chapter 5. Efficiency, a Blessing or Curse? Chapter 6. In Search of a Perfect Death Chapter 7. The Efficiency Rating, 99 vs. 98 Percent Chapter 8. The Auschwitz Method Chapter 9. The Gas Chamber, the Most Efficient Death Chapter 10. From Wannsee to the Gas Chamber Chapter 11. On the Train Come the Cattle Chapter 12. Then Cometh the Call from Hell Chapter 13. To Be or Not To Be Human Chapter 14. Efficiency's Progress, From Death Camps to Free-Enterprise Chapter 15. Mind-Control, at Auschwitz and in the U.S. Chapter 16. Alone at Auschwitz and in the U.S. Chapter 17. The Nature of Evil Explained Chapter 18. The Nature of Power Explained Chapter 19. Entertainment Station Terminal: Auschwitz, USA Chapter 20. The Epilogue Chapter 21 Bibliography Chapter 22 Footnotes Chapter 23 Index
