{"product_id":"the-public-image-of-big-business-in-america-18801940-9781421435879","title":"The Public Image of Big Business in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOtiginally 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Context and Method\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Large-Scale Organization in Modern America \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Research Technique: Content Analysis Described and Debated \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. First Generation: A Study in the Sources of Conflict\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e3. An Uneasy Equilibrium, 1879-1892 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Crisis, 1893-1901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Second Generation: A Study in the Process of Accommodation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e5. The Progressive Cycle, 1902-1914 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. War and the Corporate Culture, 1915-1919 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Third Generation: A Study in the Anatomy of Equilibrium\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e7. Continuity and Change, 1920-1929 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Toward a Stable Equilibrium, 1930-1940 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V. Conclusions, Speculations, and Afterword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e9. The Middle Cultures and the Organizational Revolution \u003cbr\u003eAppendix \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408135758167,"sku":"9781421435879","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421435879.jpg?v=1730501715","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-public-image-of-big-business-in-america-18801940-9781421435879","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}