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The theory of the managerial revolution holds that we are now in a period of social transition, a period characterized by an unusually rapid rate of change of the most important economic, social, political, and cultural institutions of society. This transition is from the type of society which we have called capitalist or bourgeois to a type of society which we shall call managerial.What is occurring in this transition is a drive for social dominance, for power and privilege, for the position of ruling class, by the social group or class of the managers. This drive will be successful. At the conclusion of the transition period the managers will, in fact, have achieved social dominance, will be the ruling class in society. This drive, more over, is world-wide in extent, already well advanced in all nations, though at different levels of development in different nations.The economic framework in which this social dominance of the managers will be assured is based upon the state ownership of the major instruments of production. Within this framework there will be no direct property rights in those instruments vested in individuals as individuals.The managers will exercise their contro
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- Author
- James Burnham
- Publisher
- The John Day Company, Inc.
- Published
- 1941
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences
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