Writing about business and industry
Designed as a text for use in compositional courses devoted to business and technical writing, this reader includes biographical headnotes, discussion questions, and ideas for writing which conform to the techniques taught in business writing courses.
322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780195073782, 9780195073799, 0195073789, 0195073797
30624591
Pensée 139 / Blaise Pascal
Of the division of labour / Adam Smith
The Dalles to Walla Walla River / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
The spirit of capitalism / Max Weber
Competition / Friedrich Engels
South Wales / George Orwell
The working life of women / B.L. Hutchins
Man and woman: images on the left / Eric Hobsbawm
The essentials of leadership / Mary Parker Follett
What I learned about business / Henry Ford
Cyrus Hall McCormick: from farm boy to tycoon / Robert Sobel. Counting globally / Roger E. Axtell
The wherewithal to spend: the economic background of Renaissance Florence / Richard Goldthwaite
The tradesman's writing letters / Daniel Defoe
The occupational structure of India / Dharma Kumar with Meghnad Desai
Foreigh assembly in Haiti / Joseph Grunwald [and others]
Strategic intent / Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
Pouring ideas into tin cans / Arthur Pound
Black coats to white collars: economic change, nonmanual work, and the social structure of industrializing america / Stuart Blumin. Women and the factory acts / Beatrice Webb
Co-ordination by committee / Alfred Pritchard Sloan
Autos: on the thin edge / Paul R. Lawrence and Davis Dyer
America rediscovers W. Edwards Deming / Andrea Gabor
Organizations as physical structures / Jeffrey Pfeffer
The parable of the Sadhu / bowen McCoy
The new product development map / Steven C. Wheelwright and W. Earl Sasser, Jr