Organization, Class and Control (RLE: Organizations) (Routledge Library Editions: Organizations)

In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include:

• the development of scientific management and the responses of Gramsci and Lenin to it
• the meaning of Mayo and the Human Relations School
• the development of typological systems and contingency models of the organization
• key concepts of goals, environment and technology.