Constructing corporate America : history, politics, culture / edited by Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicila.

Other author Lipartito, Kenneth, 1957-
Other author Sicilia, David B.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Descriptionxii, 369 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Big business--United States.
Corporate culture--United States.

Contents Introduction: Crossing corporate boundaries / Kenneth Lipartito, David B. Sicilia -- PART I. THE CORPORATE PROJECT -- Partnerships, corporations, and the limits on contractual freedom in US history: an essay in economics, law, and culture / Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- From citizens to plutocrats: nineteenth-century shareholder voting rights and theories of the corporation / Colleen A. Dunlavy -- The Utopian corporation / Kenneth Lipartito -- Whose hubris? Brandeis, scientific management, and the railroads / Gerald Berk -- PART II. CORPORATE-STATE INTERDEPENDENCIES -- The monopoly enigma, the Reagan administration's antitrust experiment, and the global economy / Louis Galambos -- Corporate technological capabilities and the state: a dynamic historical interaction / David M. Hart -- The corporation under seige: social movements, regulation, public relations, and tort law since World War II / David B. Sicilia -- PART III. THE BUSINESS OF IDENTITY -- The business of Jews / Charles Dellheim -- White corporate America: the new arbiter of race? / Juliet E.K. Walker -- Wall Street women's herstories / Melissa Fisher -- New economy romanticism, narratives of corporate personhood, and the antimanagerial impulse / Eric Guthey -- Afterword: Towards new renderings / Kenneth Lipartito, David B. Sicilia.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2004301864
ISBN0199251894 (cased)
ISBN0199251908 (pbk.)

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