Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor: The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life: Palgrave Debates in Business History
Autor Bradley Bowdenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2023
The author postulates that only through business opportunity is the wealth created that allows a continuation of our society’s intellectual endeavors. Further, the world of modern business—a unique creation of Western civilization, even if it has witnessed many regional and national adaptations—is also the actual place where inequalities are overcome and opportunities created. It is through the world of business and work that women have, for example, achieved something approaching equality with men, to a degree unprecedented in human history. This book will offer scholars a research-based argument that Western civilization owes its existence to business rather than Greco-Roman antiquity.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783030972349
ISBN-10: 3030972348
Pagini: 369
Ilustrații: XXXVII, 369 p. 62 illus., 61 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2022
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Debates in Business History
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3030972348
Pagini: 369
Ilustrații: XXXVII, 369 p. 62 illus., 61 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2022
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Debates in Business History
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
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.
Notă biografică
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.
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‘Bowden’s book provides a provocative prism through which to view western civilization and capitalism. It reveals Bowden’s understanding of the freedom and courage required to defend and sustain the values upon which the survival of modern society depends: individualism, democracy, economic and political liberalism. With the growing ascendency of social movements that prioritize group-based identities over individual achievement, his powerful warning about the “milletization” of society is more urgent than ever.’
--Art Bedeian. Louisiana State University and founding member of Management History Division, Academy of Management
This book argues that the modern iteration of western civilization is profoundly different to earlier versions. Assuming definitive shape around 1850, the new civilization differed from every culture that came before it. Whereas earlier civilizations were caught within a “Malthusian” trap that subjected most to a life of misery, the new versionof western civilization was associated with material plenty. Whereas slavery was previously endemic in both the Old and New Worlds, after 1850 the new civilization drove it to near extinction. Freedom and individualism were its hallmarks.
The author postulates that it is lived experience that primarily defines a civilization. It is thus apparent that western civilization is now a global civilization. Every society has been shaped by it in terms of business, work and home life. Constantly, however, the individualist values at its core have come under threat. Increasingly, we witness what the book calls the “milletization” of society, whereby individuals obtain their identity from this or that “identity” group in ways akin to Ottoman Turkey’s “millet” system, in which each person was assigned to a particular “millet”. Across its pages, the book offers fundamentally new understandings of western civilization and how it was reforged by business endeavor.
Bradley Bowden is Professor at Griffith University and Fellow at the Institute for Public Affairs. He is a Past Chair, Management History Division of the Academy of Management and Co-editor of the Journal of Management History. Past works include Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism and the edited, Palgrave Handbook of Management History.
--Art Bedeian. Louisiana State University and founding member of Management History Division, Academy of Management
This book argues that the modern iteration of western civilization is profoundly different to earlier versions. Assuming definitive shape around 1850, the new civilization differed from every culture that came before it. Whereas earlier civilizations were caught within a “Malthusian” trap that subjected most to a life of misery, the new versionof western civilization was associated with material plenty. Whereas slavery was previously endemic in both the Old and New Worlds, after 1850 the new civilization drove it to near extinction. Freedom and individualism were its hallmarks.
The author postulates that it is lived experience that primarily defines a civilization. It is thus apparent that western civilization is now a global civilization. Every society has been shaped by it in terms of business, work and home life. Constantly, however, the individualist values at its core have come under threat. Increasingly, we witness what the book calls the “milletization” of society, whereby individuals obtain their identity from this or that “identity” group in ways akin to Ottoman Turkey’s “millet” system, in which each person was assigned to a particular “millet”. Across its pages, the book offers fundamentally new understandings of western civilization and how it was reforged by business endeavor.
Bradley Bowden is Professor at Griffith University and Fellow at the Institute for Public Affairs. He is a Past Chair, Management History Division of the Academy of Management and Co-editor of the Journal of Management History. Past works include Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism and the edited, Palgrave Handbook of Management History.
Caracteristici
Distinguishes “Western civilization,” based on industrialization, free-market capitalism, political democracy Explores the relationship between civilization, business and climate Engages current debates about modernity