Work and Authority in Industry

Work and Authority in Industry analyzes how the entrepreneurial class responded to the challenge of creating, and later managing, an industrial work force in widely differing types of industrial societies: the United States, England, and Russia

Reinhard Bendix (1916-1991) was professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of many awards and honors throughout his lifetime, including being a fellow for the Fulbright Program, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Woodrow Wilson International Center Scholar. He belonged to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

1. Industrialization, Management, and Ideological Appeals, P A R T O N E 2. Entrepreneurial Ideologies in the Early Phase of Industrialization: The Case of England, 3. Entrepreneurial Ideologies in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russia, P A R T T W O 4. The Bureaucratization of Economic Enterprises, P A R T T H R E E 5. The American Experience, 6. Managerial Ideologies in the Russian Orbit, 7. Conclusion: Industrialization, Ideologies, and Social Structure.