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Compares industrial management in two late-industrializers—Japan and Russia—as a basis for an original theory of institution-building

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Preface: ""modernity"" and social science, beyond universal history -- The problem, the argument, and the study -- Institutions of work in theoretical and historical context : sources of variation in the course of industrialization -- Work, community, and authority in late-industrializing Japan : prewar ""traditionalism"" to postwar ""syncretism"" -- Work, community, and authority in late-industrializing Russia : socialist revolution and the ""scientific organization of labor"" -- Comparisons and implications.

Managing Modernity Work Community and Authority

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 5/2/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472112227, 978-0472112227
      ISBN10: 0472112228
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Compares industrial management in two late-industrializers—Japan and Russia—as a basis for an original theory of institution-building

      Table of Contents
      Preface: ""modernity"" and social science, beyond universal history -- The problem, the argument, and the study -- Institutions of work in theoretical and historical context : sources of variation in the course of industrialization -- Work, community, and authority in late-industrializing Japan : prewar ""traditionalism"" to postwar ""syncretism"" -- Work, community, and authority in late-industrializing Russia : socialist revolution and the ""scientific organization of labor"" -- Comparisons and implications.

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