John Mcdermott

Corporate Society (eBook, ePUB)

Class, Property, And Contemporary Capitalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The modem corporation, praised and condemned by thinkers from Weber to Bell and Dahrendorf, is the institution of modern society. Its enormous success has made it our premier social, as well as economic, institution, and modern society is increasingly coming to reflect the social structure, values, priorities, and hierarchies that have evolved within the corporation. So argues John McDermott in Corporate Society, an original and far-reaching analysis of the impact of the modern corporation on contemporary social structure. Combining business history with political insight, McDermott offers a systematic critique of the post-industrial order and the illusions it fosters. He warns against the development of a "post-society industry" in which the corporate order replaces democratic institutions as the primary organizer of social and cultural life, and he argues that the corporation harbors a set of explosive socioeconomic contradictions. The need to confront the challenges of this new order, with its potential for a uniquely modern class conflict, makes Corporate Society a crucial work for teachers and students alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429718595
• Artikelnr.: 55724418

Autorenporträt

John McDermott is professor emeritus of labor studies at the State University of New York, College of Old Westbury. Previously, he served as senior editor for Viet-Report, and he is currently on the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economy. The author of Crisis in the Working Class, he has authored articles that have appeared in numerous journals, including Dissent, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Renewing the Discussion
Corporate Form: Organizing the Production of a New Physical World
The Evolution of Corporate Form
Private and Corporate Property
The Ruling Class in Corporate Society
The Modern Middle Class
Managing the Collective Worker
Neither Artisans nor Proletarians
Epilogue: Alberich and Prometheus
the Modern Corporation as a Social Institution