![]() | Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America Subjects: Big business -- United States -- History; Corporations -- United States -- Finance -- History; Industrial policy -- United States -- History; Capitalism -- United States -- History; Social structure -- United States -- History; Rich people -- United State; Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property , social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life. 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. William G. Roy is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He specializes in large-scale political and economic transformations. |
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