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Socializing capital : the rise of the large industrial corporation in America / William G. Roy.
Author
Roy, William G., 1946-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
©1997
Description
xv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Availability
Available Online
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De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook Package Archive 1927-1999
1999 - 1999: EBSCOhost Sociology Source Ultimate
Available from 1999 until 1999.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HD2785 .R598 1997
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Subject(s)
Big business
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United States
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History
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Corporations
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United States
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Finance
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History
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Industrial policy
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United States
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History
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Capitalism
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United States
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History
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Social structure
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United States
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History
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Rich people
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United States
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History
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Power (Social sciences)
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United States
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History
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Summary note
Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Departing from the received wisdom, which sees the big, vertically integrated corporation as the result of technological development and market growth that required greater efficiency in larger scale firms, Roy focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power.
The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals and then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, and investment banks into a mechanism for the organization of railroads. Finally, and most particularly, he analyzes its flowering into the realm of manufacturing, when at the turn of this century, many of the same giants that still dominate the American economic landscape were created. Thus, the corporation altered manufacturing entities so that they were each owned by many people instead of by single individuals as had previously been the case.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-317) and index.
Contents
Introduction
A quantitative test of efficiency theory
The corporation as public and private enterprise
Railroads: the corporation's institutional wellspring
Auxiliary institutions: the stock market, investment banking, and brokers
Statutory corporate law, 1880-1913
Prelude to a revolution
American industry incorporates
Conclusion: a political sociology of the large corporation.
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ISBN
0691043531 ((acid-free paper))
9780691043531 ((acid-free paper))
069101034X ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
9780691010342 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
96008672
OCLC
34691276
Other standard number
ZBWT00806111
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