Socializing capital : the rise of the large industrial corporation in America / William G. Roy.

Author
Roy, William G., 1946- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
  • ©1997
Description
xv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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      • 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.
      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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