Manufacturing Rationality

Download or read book Manufacturing Rationality written by Yehouda A. Shenhav and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through careful analysis of contemporary records in the engineering profession, the author shows how management invented itself and carved its own domain in the face of hostility and resistance from both manufacturers and workers. The book demonstrates how the new language and rhetoric of management emerged, and how it confronted and replaced the language of traditional capitalism: "system" instead of "individuals"; "jobs" instead of "natural rights"; "planning" instead of "free initiatives".