Making America Corporate, 1870-1920
- ISBN-10
- 0226994600
- ISBN-13
- 9780226994604
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 267
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-08-15
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Olivier Zunz
Description
A study of the impact of corporate middle-level managers and white collar workers on American society and culture. An extended essay on social change based on case studies of a wide range of participants in the emerging corporate culture of the early 1900s. Zunz is in the history department at the U. of Virginia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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