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Constructing Corporate America
History, Politics, Culture
Edited by Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia
384 pages
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numerous tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925190-2
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Paperback
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27 May 2004
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- A cutting edge review of the theoretical and historical literature on the corporation.
- Strongly interdisciplinary, with contributions from authors in history, economics, political science, anthropology and cultural studies.
Why and how has the business corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American society? The essays here take up this question, offering a fresh perspective on the ways in which the business corporation has assumed an enduring place in the modern capitalist economy, and how it has affected American society, culture and politics over the past two centuries.
The authors challenge standard assumptions about the business corporation's emergence and performance in the United States over the past two centuries. Reviewing in depth the different
theoretical and historiographical traditions that have treated the corporation, the volume seeks a new departure that can more fully explain this crucial institution of capitalism. Rejecting assertions that the corporation is dead, the essays show that in fact it has survived and even thrived down to the present in part because of the ways in which it has related to its social, political and cultural environmental. In doing so, the book breaks with older explanations ground in technology and economics, and treats the corporation for the first time as a fully social institution. Drawing on a variety of social theories and approaches, the essays help to point the way toward future studies of this powerful and enduring institution, offering a new periodization and a new set of question for
scholars to explore. The range of essays engages the legal and political position of the corporation, the ways in which the corporation has been shaped by and shaped American culture, the controversies over corporate regulation and corporate power, and the efforts of minority and disadvantaged groups to gain access to the resources and opportunities that corporations control.
Readership: Academics and students in management, business history, economics, political science and history.
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Edited by Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University, and David B. Sicilia, University of Maryland Contributors:
Gerald Berk, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Charles Dellheim, Professor and Chair of History, Boston University
Colleen A. Dunlavy, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Melissa Fisher, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Louis Galambos, Professor of History, John Hopkins University
Eric Guthey, Associate Professor of American Studies, Copenhagen Business School
David M. Hart,
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Professor of Economics and History, University of California
Kenneth Lipartito, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, Florida International University
David B. Sicilia, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland,
Juliet E. K. Walker, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
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Introduction: Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia: Crossing Corporate Boundaries
Part I: The Corporate Project
1: Naomi R. Lamoreaux: Partnerships, Corporations, and the Limits on Contractual Freedom in US History: An Essay in Economics, Law, and Culture
2: Colleen A. Dunlavy: From Partners to Plutocrats: Nineteenth-Century Shareholder Voting Rights and Theories of the Corporation
3: Kenneth Lipartito: The Utopian Corporation
4: Gerald Berk: Whose Hubris? Brandeis, Scientific Management, and the Railroads
Part II: Corporate-State Interdependencies
5: Louis Galambos: The Monopoly Enigma, the Reagan Administration's Antitrust Experiment, and the Global Economy
6: David M. Hart: Corporate Technological Capabilities and the State: A Dynamic Historical Interaction
7: David B. Sicilia: The Corporation Under Seige: Social Movements, Regulation, Public Relations, and Tort Law since World War II
Part III: The Business of Identity
8: Charles Dellheim: The Business of Jews
9: Juliet E. K. Walker: White Corporate America: The New Arbiter of Race?
10: Melissa Fisher: Wall Street Women's Herstories
11: Eric Guthey: New Economy Romanticism, Narratives of Corporate Personhood, and the Antimanagerial Impulse
Afterword: Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia: Towards New Renderings
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