Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor

The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvBradley Bowden

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This book argues that modern Western civilization is synonymous with business, and you cannot have one without the other—or, at least, not for very long.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-05
Mått148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Debates in Business History
Antal sidor369
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030972349

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Bradley Bowden is Professor of Employment Relations at Griffith University, Australia. He is currently Executive Member and Past Chair of the Management History Division of the Academy of Management. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management History. His past works include Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism: The Intellectual Conflict at the Heart of Business Endeavour and the edited collection, Management History: Its Global Past and Present.

Chapter 1: Introduction Civilization and Lived Experience.- Part 1: The Quests that Created a New Western Civilization (and Destroyed Others): Crops, Climate, Calories.- Chapter 2: The 3-Cs: Crops, Climate, Calories.- Chapter 3: Crops and the Shaping of Civilizations.- Chapter 4: Climate: The Destroyer of Civilizations, and How Early Modern Europe Rose from Catastrophe.- Chapter 5: The Eternal Challenge: Calorific Expenditure and the Emergence of an Industrialized Civilization.- Part 2: Freedom, Slavery and The Rise of an Industrialized Western Civilization.- Chapter 6: Time, Scale and Understandings of Western Civilization.- chapter 7: What is Freedom? What is Slavery?.- Chapter 8: Freedom, Democracy and Individualism: Cause of Business Success or Mere Correlation?.- Chapter 9: Slavery and its Legacies.- Part 3: Global Transformation: The Embrace and Rejection of an Industrialized Western Civilization.- chapter 10: Global Transformation.- chapter 11: A Globalized Civilization: Ascendancy, Contradictions and Interdependence.- Chapter 12: Choices and the Milletization of Western Society.