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Book SynopsisOtiginally published in 1975. At the time that Louis Galambos published The Public Image of Big Business in America in 1975, America had matured into a bureaucratic state. The expression of the military-industrial complex and big business grew so pervasive that the postwar United States was defined in large part by its citizens' participation in large-scale organizational structures. Noticing this development, Galambos maintains that the single most significant phenomenon in modern American history is the emergence of giant, complex organizations. Today, bureaucratic organizations influence the day-to-day lives of most Americansthey gather taxes, regulate businesses, provide services, administer welfare, provide education, and on and on. These organizations are defined by their hierarchical structure in which the power of decision-making is allotted according to abstract rules that create impersonal scenarios. Bureaucracies have developed as a result of technological changes in the sec
Table of ContentsList of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Part I. Context and Method
Chapter 1. The Large-Scale Organization in Modern America
Chapter 2. Research Technique: Content Analysis Described and Debated
Part II. First Generation: A Study in the Sources of Conflict
Chapter 3. An Uneasy Equilibrium, 1879-1892
Chapter 4. Crisis, 1893-1901
Part III. Second Generation: A Study in the Process of Accommodation
Chapter 5. The Progressive Cycle, 1902-1914
Chapter 6. War and the Corporate Culture, 1915-1919
Part IV. Third Generation: A Study in the Anatomy of Equilibrium
Chapter 7. Continuity and Change, 1920-1929
Chapter 8. Toward a Stable Equilibrium, 1930-1940
Part V. Conclusions, Speculations, and Afterword
Chapter 9. The Middle Cultures and the Organizational Revolution
Appendix
Notes
Index
