Organizing The 20th Century World

Author : Karen Gram-Skjoldager
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350134589
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing the 20th-Century World written by Karen Gram-Skjoldager and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Organizations play a pivotal role on the modern global stage and have done, this book argues, since the beginning of the 20th century. This volume offers the first historical exploration into the formative years of international public administrations, covering the birth of the League of Nations and the emergence of the second generation that still shape international politics today such as the UN, NATO and OECD. Centring on Europe, where the multilaterization of international relations played out more intensely in the mid-20th century than in other parts of the world, it demonstrates a broad range of historiographical and methodological approaches to institutions in international history. The book argues that after several 'turns' (cultural, linguistic, material, transnational), international history is now better equipped to restate its core questions of policy and power with a view to their institutional dimensions. Making use of new approaches in the field, this book develops an understanding of the specific powers and roles of IO-administrations by delving into their institutional make-up.

Author : Karen Gram-Skjoldager
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350134597
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing the 20th-Century World written by Karen Gram-Skjoldager and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Organizations play a pivotal role on the modern global stage and have done, this book argues, since the beginning of the 20th century. This volume offers the first historical exploration into the formative years of international public administrations, covering the birth of the League of Nations and the emergence of the second generation that still shape international politics today such as the UN, NATO and OECD. Centring on Europe, where the multilaterization of international relations played out more intensely in the mid-20th century than in other parts of the world, it demonstrates a broad range of historiographical and methodological approaches to institutions in international history. The book argues that after several 'turns' (cultural, linguistic, material, transnational), international history is now better equipped to restate its core questions of policy and power with a view to their institutional dimensions. Making use of new approaches in the field, this book develops an understanding of the specific powers and roles of IO-administrations by delving into their institutional make-up.

Author : Nitsan Chorev
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801463920
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Health Organization between North and South written by Nitsan Chorev and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives, the WHO bureaucracy has faced the challenge of reconciling the preferences of a small minority of wealthy nations, who fund the organization, with the demands of poorer member countries, who hold the majority of votes. In The World Health Organization between North and South, Nitsan Chorev shows how the WHO bureaucracy has succeeded not only in avoiding having its agenda co-opted by either coalition of member states but also in reaching a consensus that fit the bureaucracy's own principles and interests. Chorev assesses the response of the WHO bureaucracy to member-state pressure in two particularly contentious moments: when during the 1970s and early 1980s developing countries forcefully called for a more equal international economic order, and when in the 1990s the United States and other wealthy countries demanded international organizations adopt neoliberal economic reforms. In analyzing these two periods, Chorev demonstrates how strategic maneuvering made it possible for a vulnerable bureaucracy to preserve a relatively autonomous agenda, promote a consistent set of values, and protect its interests in the face of challenges from developing and developed countries alike.

Author : Tuomo Peltonen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785368753
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Organizing written by Tuomo Peltonen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of organizing are conventionally seen as emerging from the historiographical works of Western social scientists in the early 20th century. Here, the authors address a gap in current literature by exploring previously unrecognized or marginalized global origins in both modern and ancient history.

Author : Daniel Maul
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110646668
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Labour Organization written by Daniel Maul and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive account of the International Labour Organization’s 100-year history. At its heart is the concept of global social policy, which encompasses not only social policy in its national and international dimensions, but also development policy, world trade, international migration and human rights. The book focuses on the ILO’s roles as a key player in debates on poverty, social justice, wealth distribution and social mobility subjects and as a global forum for addressing these issues. The study puts in perspective the manifold ways in which the ILO has helped structure these debates and has made – through its standard-setting, technical cooperation and myriad other activities – practical contributions to the world of work and to global social policy.

Author : Gabriel Thompson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520280830
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Social Arsonist written by Gabriel Thompson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."ÑFred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would Òstay with his own kind,Ó Fred Ross instead became one of the most influential community organizers in American history. His activism began alongside Dust Bowl migrants, where he managed the same labor camp that inspired John SteinbeckÕs The Grapes of Wrath. During World War II, Ross worked for the release of interned Japanese Americans, and after the war, he dedicated his life to building the political power of Latinos across California. Labor organizing in this country was forever changed when Ross knocked on the door of a young Cesar Chavez and encouraged him to become an organizer. Until now there has been no biography of Fred Ross, a man who believed a good organizer was supposed to fade into the crowd as others stepped forward. In AmericaÕs Social Arsonist, Gabriel Thompson provides a full picture of this complicated and driven man, recovering a forgotten chapter of American history and providing vital lessons for organizers today.

Author : William H. Whyte
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209265
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organization Man written by William H. Whyte and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies—television, affordable cars, space travel, fast food—and lifestyles, such as carefully planned suburban communities centered around the nuclear family. William H. Whyte found this phenomenon alarming. As an editor for Fortune magazine, Whyte was well placed to observe corporate America; it became clear to him that the American belief in the perfectibility of society was shifting from one of individual initiative to one that could be achieved at the expense of the individual. With its clear analysis of contemporary working and living arrangements, The Organization Man rapidly achieved bestseller status. Since the time of the book's original publication, the American workplace has undergone massive changes. In the 1990s, the rule of large corporations seemed less relevant as small entrepreneurs made fortunes from new technologies, in the process bucking old corporate trends. In fact this "new economy" appeared to have doomed Whyte's original analysis as an artifact from a bygone day. But the recent collapse of so many startup businesses, gigantic mergers of international conglomerates, and the reality of economic globalization make The Organization Man all the more essential as background for understanding today's global market. This edition contains a new foreword by noted journalist and author Joseph Nocera. In an afterword Jenny Bell Whyte describes how The Organization Man was written.

Author : Thomas W. Malone
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262632737
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century written by Thomas W. Malone and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to invent the future of business organization.

Author : Henry Laurence Gantt
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230289342
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing for Work written by Henry Laurence Gantt and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... "THE RELIGION OF DEMOCRACY" Foe over a thousand years the history of the world has been made by two great forces--the church and the state--the church basing its power on idealism and moral forces, the state . depending almost entirely upon military power. At times these two forces have seemed for a while to co-operate, and then to become antagonistic. Today they are absolutely distinct, working in different fields, with but little ground in common, and a rival claims the middle of the stage, for during the last century there has come into the world another force, which has concerned itself but little with our religious activities, and interested itself in our political activities only in so far as it could make the political forces serve its ends. I speak of the modern business system, based on the tremendously increased productive capacity of the race due to the advance of the arts and sciences. The rapid expansion of this new power has thrown all our economic mechanism out of gear, and because it failed to maintain a social purpose, which is common to both of the other forces, produces cross-currents and antagonisms in the community which are extremely detrimental to society as a whole. One hundred years ago, each family--certainly each community--produced nearly everything needed for the simple life then led. The village blacksmith and the local mill served the community, which existed substantially as a self-contained unit. With the growth of the transportation system and grand scale production many of the functions of the local artizans were taken over by the factory, just as the flour mills of Minneapolis supplanted the local mills, which went out of existence. In the same manner other large centralized industries by superior...

Author : Paul Y. Hammond
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400878330
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing for Defense written by Paul Y. Hammond and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the defense administration, with thorough criticism of the National Security Council, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the armed services as governmental organizations. His book is a substantial reinterpretation of the history of the military organization of the U.S. from 1900 to 1960. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.