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Author: M. Schwartz Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230623328 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 220
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Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus.
Author: M. Schwartz Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230623328 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus.
Author: M. Schwartz Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137353058 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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Examining twenty-five years of theatre history, this book covers the major plays that feature representations of the Industrial Workers of the World. American class movement and class divisions have long been reflected on the Broadway stage and here Michael Schwartz presents a fresh look at the conflict between labor and capital.
Author: Charles Perrow Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400825083 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational history of nineteenth-century America, Yale sociologist Charles Perrow says no. He shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. Critics railed against the nationalizing of the economy, against corporations' monopoly powers, political subversion, environmental destruction, and "wage slavery." How did a nation committed to individual freedom, family firms, public goods, and decentralized power become transformed in one century? Bountiful resources, a mass market, and the industrial revolution gave entrepreneurs broad scope. In Europe, the state and the church kept private organizations small and required consideration of the public good. In America, the courts and business-steeped legislators removed regulatory constraints over the century, centralizing industry and privatizing the railroads. Despite resistance, the corporate form became the model for the next century. Bureaucratic structure spread to government and the nonprofits. Writing in the tradition of Max Weber, Perrow concludes that the driving force of our history is not technology, politics, or culture, but large, bureaucratic organizations. Perrow, the author of award-winning books on organizations, employs his witty, trenchant, and graceful style here to maximum effect. Colorful vignettes abound: today's headlines echo past battles for unchecked organizational freedom; socially responsible alternatives that were tried are explored along with the historical contingencies that sent us down one road rather than another. No other book takes the role of organizations in America's development as seriously. The resultant insights presage a new historical genre.
Author: John L. Campbell Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108487823 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 313
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There is no inevitable logic of capitalism. Capitalism's stability depends on how well nation-states manage it and on social cohesion.
Author: Kristine Bruland Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780198290469 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 396
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What explains the growth of a business, and more broadly the development or decline of a whole economy? What role does a particular entrepreneur or indeed a culture of entrepreneurship play? Does the evidence suggest that a particular structure or organizational form was or should be adopted to ensure best practice and commercial success? These fundamental questions have long preoccupied business and economic historians. With the current expansion of business and management education and training, the investigations and findings of the historian may have wider significance and relevance. This volume has been stimulated by the work of Peter Mathias, one of the leading figures in this field in the post-war period. Here a number of his former students--many now internationally distinguished historians--pay tribute in a book that explores the move from family firms to corporate capitalism. The contributors argue that sustained growth has never been a matter of a few spectacular technical breakthroughs, but instead rests on subtle economic and social transformations--in cultures, in economic organizations, and in the roles of science and technology.
Author: Graley Herren Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786478934 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 245
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Text & Presentation, 2013 gathers some of the best work presented at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. Subjects ranging from Ancient Greece to 21st century America are covered with a variety of approaches and formats. Celebrated playwright Edward Albee's presentation is the lead piece, followed by 12 research papers, one review essay, and seven book reviews. This volume represents the latest research in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis.
Author: David Boje Publisher: ISBN: 9781521963470 Category : Languages : en Pages : 499
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I think one requirement for conscious capitalism is that we understand the social process and dialectic of creativity and oppression. Some oppression is highly creative, and some forms of resistance are not all that creative. Much of the resistance is individual, thought in the postmodern turn, a wide variety of different social causes and movements are networking to put on large-scale carnivals of protest. This partly affirms social creativity, and partly rechannels individual expression in postmodern carnivals of resistance. The Society of the Spectacle, is a form of theatre that imposes constraints upon individual improvisation, deviances from some script, carry severe punishments. Yet, in the most oppressive, most McDonaldized scripting of our work and consumption lives, there is room from creative resistance and improvisation, one might call festive. I conclude that theatre is dangerous. We are addicted to spectacle theatre, there is not enough carnival to resist, and we do not know how to perform work and leisure in a more festive relationship to Nature or each other. We witness the contest of spectacle and carnival in the Battle for Seattle, and the subsequent off-Broadway performances in Canada, Switzerland, Italy, and in post-September 11, the war on terror. These are not festive theatrical performances, they are increasingly dangerous, and the blood is flowing.
Author: Thomas C. Owen Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195357140 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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From the three perspectives of geography, economic policy, and ideology, this work examines corporate capitalism under the tsarist and late Soviet regimes. Thomas C. Owen discovers a remarkable history of thwarted effort and lost opportunity. He explores the impact of bureaucratic restrictions and reveals the entrepreneurial capabilities of Russia's corporate founders from various social groups as well as the prominence of Poles, Germans, Jews, Armenians, and foreign citizens in the corporate elite of the Russian Empire and its ten largest cities. The study stresses continuities between tsarist and late Soviet periods, especially in the persistence of anti-capitalist attitudes, both radical and reactionary. A provocative final chapter considers the implications of the weak corporate heritage for the future of Russian capitalism.
Author: R. Wattenberg Publisher: Springer ISBN: 023011914X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 451
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Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.
Author: John Ehrenreich Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501703595 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
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In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century gave way to corporate capitalism in the twentieth, recent decades have witnessed corporate capitalism evolving into a new phase, which Ehrenreich calls "Third Wave Capitalism." Third Wave Capitalism is marked by apparent contradictions: Rapid growth in productivity and lagging wages; fabulous wealth for the 1 percent and the persistence of high levels of poverty; increases in the standard of living and increases in mental illness, personal misery, and political rage; the apotheosis of the individual and the deterioration of democracy; increases in life expectancy and out-of-control medical costs; an African American president and the incarceration of a large percentage of the black population. Ehrenreich asserts that these phenomena are evidence that a virulent, individualist, winner-take-all ideology and a virtual fusion of government and business have subverted the American dream. Greed and economic inequality reinforce the sense that each of us is "on our own." The result is widespread lack of faith in collective responses to our common problems. The collapse of any organized opposition to business demands makes political solutions ever more difficult to imagine. Ehrenreich traces the impact of these changes on American health care, school reform, income distribution, racial inequities, and personal emotional distress. Not simply a lament, Ehrenreich’s book seeks clues for breaking out of our current stalemate and proposes a strategy to create a new narrative in which change becomes possible.
Author: M. Schwartz
Author: M. Schwartz
Author: M. Schwartz
Author: Charles Perrow
Author: John L. Campbell
Author: Kristine Bruland
Author: Graley Herren
Author: David Boje
Author: Thomas C. Owen
Author: R. Wattenberg
Author: John Ehrenreich