Organizing modernity : new Weberian perspectives on work, organizations, and society / edited by Larry J. Ray and Michael Reed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Larry J.

Reed, M. I. (Michael I.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weber, Max, 1864-1920.

Weber, Max.

Organizational sociology.

Physical Description:

viii, 211 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a re-evaluation of Weber's work on the current debates about the institutional and organizational dynamics of modernity, offering interpretations of his work which emphasize the reality of modernity as a dual process.

Contents:

1. Bringing the text back in : on ways of reading the iron cage metaphor hi [sic] the two editions of The Protestant ethic / David Chalcraft

2. Max Weber and contemporary sociology of organizations / Stewart R.Clegg

3. Work and authority : some Weberian perspectives / John Eldridge

4. Accounting for organizational feeling / Martin Albrow

5. Max Weber on individualism, bureaucracy and despotism : political authoritarianism and contemporary politics / Bryan S.Turner

6. Commerce, science and the modern university / Keith Tribe

7. Max Weber and the dilemmas of modernity / Larry J.Ray and Michael Reed.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-87916-4

1-134-87917-2

0-203-30644-9

1-280-33652-8

0-203-42073-X

9780203420737

OCLC:

252809141