Constructing Corporate America

Kenneth Lipartito is Professor of History, and Chair of the Department of History, at the Florida International University. His previous publications include Investing for Middle America: John Elliott Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors (St. Martins Press, 2001).David B. Sicilia is Visiting Fulbright Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. His previous publications include The Greenspan Effect (McGraw-Hill, 2000) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, The Engine that Could: Seventy-Five Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company (Harvard Business School Press, 1997) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, and The Entrepreneurs: An American Adventure (Houghton-Mifflin, 1986) with Robert Sobel.

• Introduction Crossing Corporate Boundaries ; PART I: THE CORPORATE PROJECT ; 1. Partnerships, Corporations, and the Limits on Contractual Freedom in US History: An Essay in Economics, Law, and Culture ; 2. From Partners to Plutocrats: Nineteenth-Century Shareholder Voting Rights and Theories of the Corporation ; 3. The Utopian Corporation ; 4. Whose Hubris? Brandeis, Scientific Management, and the Railroads ; PART II: CORPORATE-STATE INTERDEPENDENCIES ; 5. The Monopoly Enigma, the Reagan Administration's Antitrust Experiment, and the Global Economy ; 6. Corporate Technological Capabilities and the State: A Dynamic Historical Interaction ; 7. The Corporation Under Seige: Social Movements, Regulation, Public Relations, and Tort Law since World War II ; PART III: THE BUSINESS OF IDENTITY ; 8. The Business of Jews ; 9. White Corporate America: The New Arbiter of Race? ; 10. Wall Street Women's Herstories ; 11. New Economy Romanticism, Narratives of Corporate Personhood, and the Antimanagerial Impulse ; Afterword Towards New Renderings