Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Renewing the Discussion; The Modern Corporation; Class and Property; Altering the Social Categories; Post-Society Industry; Erasing Liberal Society; Political Tendencies; Historical Perspectives; The Dictatorship of the Clever; Bibliographical Essay; 1 Corporate Form: Organising the Production of a New Physical World; The Corporation as a Social Structure of Production; Alfred P. Sloan and General Motors: Managing the Managers
... Who Manage the Workers: Taylor, Taylorism, and SchmidtCorporate Form: The Corporation as a Technical Productive Structure; Bibliographical Essay; 2 The Evolution of Corporate Form; Evolutions I: Upper Management; Evolutions II: The Middle Managerial, Technical, and Professional Group; Evolutions III: The Collective Worker; A Social and Historical View of the Corporation; Origins I: A Second and Greater Industrial Revolution; Origins II: Dreadnoughts, Gunboats, and Other White Fleets; Origins III: The Specter of Social Democracy; Society Re-Created; Bibliographical Essay
3 Private and Corporate PropertyProperty as Private Property; Collective Property and Corporate Form; Who Owns the Corporation?; Bibliographical Essay; 4 The Ruling Class in Corporate Society; A Ruling Class; Public"" and ""Private; Corporate Society: The Fabrication of the Social World; Bibliographical Essay; 5 The Modern Middle Class; In the Middle?; The Professions and Professionalism; The High Costs of the Middle Class: A Digression on Economic Class Conflict; An International Class; Bibliographical Essay; 6 Managing the Collective Worker; Bureaucracy"" and Class Domination
Social and Political TaylorismSocially Compulsory Consumption; Whose Trade Unions?; Sociological and Historical Methods; Bibliographical Essay; 7 Neither Artisans nor Proletarians; Proletarians and After; Corporation and Worker: A Symbiotic History; What Is Class Consciousness?; Highly Cultivated Donkeys; Bibliographical Essay; Epilogue: Alberich and Prometheus-The Modern Corporation as a Social Institution; About the Book and Author; Index
