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The Visible hand by Alfred D. Chandler · Booklabria

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HistoryHistoire

The Visible hand

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First published: 1977

Synopsis

The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers- during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated for the first time in this pathmarking book. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. the distinguished historian of business, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communication and the central sectors of production and distribution.

Subjects: History
Histoire
Industrial management
Capitalism
Industries
Industrie

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Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1977
Pages: 608
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674940520

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