Constructing Corporate America
History, Politics, Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 May 2004
- ISBN 9780199251902
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 233x157x22 mm
- Weight 589 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables 0
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Short description:
This collection of cutting-edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the dominant trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution. The authors draw on cultural theory, anthropology, political theory, and legal history to consider the place of the firm in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American society.
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Why and how has the business corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American society? The essays here take up this question, offering a fresh perspective on the ways in which the business corporation has assumed an enduring place in the modern capitalist economy, and how it has affected American society, culture and politics over the past two centuries.
The authors challenge standard assumptions about the business corporation's emergence and performance in the United States over the past two centuries. Reviewing in depth the different theoretical and historiographical traditions that have treated the corporation, the volume seeks a new departure that can more fully explain this crucial institution of capitalism. Rejecting assertions that the corporation is dead, the essays show that in fact it has survived and even thrived down to the present in part because of the ways in which it has related to its social, political and cultural environmental. In doing so, the book breaks with older explanations ground in technology and economics, and treats the corporation for the first time as a fully social institution. Drawing on a variety of social theories and approaches, the essays help to point the way toward future studies of this powerful and enduring institution, offering a new periodization and a new set of question for scholars to explore. The range of essays engages the legal and political position of the corporation, the ways in which the corporation has been shaped by and shaped American culture, the controversies over corporate regulation and corporate power, and the efforts of minority and disadvantaged groups to gain access to the resources and opportunities that corporations control.
Table of Contents:
Crossing Corporate Boundaries
Part I: The Corporate Project
Partnerships, Corporations, and the Limits on Contractual Freedom in US History: An Essay in Economics, Law, and Culture
From Partners to Plutocrats: Nineteenth-Century Shareholder Voting Rights and Theories of the Corporation
The Utopian Corporation
Whose Hubris? Brandeis, Scientific Management, and the Railroads
Part II: Corporate-State Interdependencies
The Monopoly Enigma, the Reagan Administration's Antitrust Experiment, and the Global Economy
Corporate Technological Capabilities and the State: A Dynamic Historical Interaction
The Corporation Under Seige: Social Movements, Regulation, Public Relations, and Tort Law since World War II
Part III: The Business of Identity
The Business of Jews
White Corporate America: The New Arbiter of Race?
Wall Street Women's Herstories
New Economy Romanticism, Narratives of Corporate Personhood, and the Antimanagerial Impulse
Towards New Renderings
