The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation (Revised)

基本信息

Paperback: 448 pages

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; Revised ed. edition (June 27, 2002)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0812218191

ISBN-13: 978-0812218190

Product Dimensions: 146 x 210 x 30.48mm | 544.31g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

怀特1956年写了著名《组织人》（The Organization Man）一书，谈讨了美国大企业的经理阶层的特点。

Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies-television, affordable cars, space travel, fast food-and lifestyles, such as carefully planned suburban communities centered around the nuclear family. William H. Whyte found this phenomenon alarming.

As an editor for Fortune magazine, Whyte was well placed to observe corporate America; it became clear to him that the American belief in the perfectibility of society was shifting from one of individual initiative to one that could be achieved at the expense of the individual. With its clear analysis of contemporary working and living arrangements, The Organization Man rapidly achieved bestseller status.

Since the time of the book\'s original publication, the American workplace has undergone massive changes. In the 1990s, the rule of large corporations seemed less relevant as small entrepreneurs made fortunes from new technologies, in the process bucking old corporate trends. In fact this \"new economy\" appeared to have doomed Whyte\'s original analysis as an artifact from a bygone day. But the recent collapse of so many startup businesses, gigantic mergers of international conglomerates, and the reality of economic globalization make The Organization Man all the more essential as background for understanding today\'s global market. This edition contains a new foreword by noted journalist and author Joseph Nocera. In an afterword Jenny Bell Whyte describes how The Organization Man was written.

作者简介

威廉·怀特(WilliamH.Whyte)，1917年生于美国宾夕法尼亚州，1999在纽约逝世。他是美国著名的社会学家、新闻记者和人类研究学家；是美国关于城市、人与开敞空间方面最有影响力和最受尊敬的评论家之一。通过他的著作，特别是《有组织的人》《最后的景观》和《小城市空间的社会生活》，威廉·怀特教育了一代城市规划者和设计师，应该把城市看作是人的居住地，而不是简单地作为经济机器、交通节点或巨大的建筑展示平台。

William H. Whyte (1917-1999), author of the bestselling Organization Man, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton. Paco Underhill, founder, CEO, and president of Envirosell, is the author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping and Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping.