Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Snow, Henry
Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Snow, Henry

Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World

What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate...
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Author: Henry Snow
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Snow, Henry

Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World

$35.94
Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Snow, Henry

Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World

$35.94
Author: Henry Snow
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives?

Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seven­teenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers--and new justifications for doing so. Ideas of control perfected on the factory floor have expanded to dictate our personal lives, polit­ical rights, national policy, and the global economy.

Seventeenth-century intellectuals such as William Petty and John Locke argued that human beings were selfish machines who had to be controlled for their own good. A century later, Jeremy and Samuel Bentham tried to do exactly that with their infamous Panopticon prison. When nineteenth-century Japa­nese elites imported European factory technologies, they came up with new theories of political control to justify this development. After the Second World War, the General Electric Corporation created an in­ternal propaganda department to fight unions, then pitched that propaganda to the country with the help of an actor, the future President Ronald Reagan. Ex­tending these practices, billionaires today dream of extending the algorithmic control of Amazon ware­houses into every corner of our lives.

Blending intellectual, economic, and labor history, Control Science is a thrilling and lucid work of his­tory. Henry Snow reveals how common sense about work, the economy, and human nature was fabricated and must now be challenged.

Author: Henry Snow
Publisher: Verso
Published: 05/12/2026
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.07w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9781804293201

About the Author
Henry Snow is a labor historian who has taught at Colby College and the University of Connecticut. They publish the newsletter Another Way.
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