Business and Society: A Reader in the History, Sociology, and Ethics of Business / Edition 1

by Barry Castro

Overview

Combining perspectives on the interplay of two areas of primary importance to our lives—business and society—this anthology brings together a wide range of readings on the subject. Topics include the historical evolution of the business enterprise, the emergence and development of the labor force, and the impact of the international marketplace. Castro concentrates on the moral and social aspects of business, the way it affects national economy, the environment, careers, the disadvantaged, government, and public opinion. Combining the idea that a good business education must also be a good liberal education, Castro is careful to show the connections between the way Americans have done and thought about business in the past, with the way Americans think and do business today. Considering the abundance of socioeconomic issues in everyday life, he shows that business ethics has always been an integral part of business, and that this continues to be true. He shows that the historical, social, and ethical dimensions of business are an inseparable and necessary component of business education. Chosen for their student interest and accessibility, the readings can be used for a variety of different courses covering business and society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195095661
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/25/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	9.18(w) x 6.44(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Grand Valley State University

Table of Contents

I. HISTORY1. A Parable to Begin WithiDaniel Lerner/i:"The Grocer and the Chief"2. Opportnity and DislocationiOscar Handlin/i: "Peasant Origins"iThe New York Times/i: "East Side Street Vendors"iMorris Rosenfeld/i: "Sweat Shop"iPedro Pietri/i: "Puerto Rican Obituary"iStephen Meyer III/i: "Assembly-Line Americanization"3. Business: Culture and TechnologyiAnthony Giddens/i: "The Themes of the Protestant Ethic"iClifford Geertz/i: "Economic Development in Modjokuto"iAlfred D. Chandler/i: "The Role of Business in the United States: A Historical Survey"4. Capital AccumulationiJohn Maynard Keynes/i: "On Late Nineteenth-Century Capitalism"iSteven F. Cohen/i: Selections5. CommunityiWendell Berry/i: "Does Community Have a Value?"6. Bringing It back HomeiBarry Castro/i: "Socrates in Dallas: Managing the Facilities"II. Sociology7. A Poem to Begin WithiRobert Frost/i: "Two Tramps in Mudtime"8. Workers and ManagersiSimone Weill/i: "The Experience of Factory Life"i Robert Jackall/i: "The Social Structure of Managerial Work"iGeorge Orwell/i: "Shooting an Elephant"9. The MarginalizediWilliam Langer/i: "The Black Masses"iHerbert George Gutman/i (Selections)iCornell West/i (Selections)iJohn Tierney/i: "Harlem Teenagers Checkmate a Stereotype"iR.B./i "If Yo Go..."10. Power and CultureiT.S. Eliot/i (Selections)iKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels/i (Selections)11. Power, Culture, and MediaiBen H. Bagdidkian/i: "The Wrong Kind of Readers: The Fall and Rise of the New Yorker"iGloria Steinem/i: "Sex, Lies, and Advertising"12. Bringing It Back HomeiBarry Castro/i: "Learning about Education at the Workplace"III. Ethics13. A Dilemma To Begin WithiDouglas Hofstadter/i: "The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Evolution of Cooperation"14. ConscienceiRobert Solomon/i: "The Corporation As Community"iRoger Rosenblatt/i: "How Do They Live With Themselves?"15. LawiMontesquieu/i: "On Commerce"16. EnvironmentiGarrett Hardin/i: "The Tragedy of the Commons"iMax Oelschaeger/i: "The Idea of Wilderness"iLynn White/i: "The Historical Roots of Or Ecological Crisis"17. An OverviewiAlbert O. Hirshman/i: "Rival Interpretation of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?"18. Bringing It Back HomeiBarry Castro/i: "Business Ethics: Knowing Ourselves"