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Savage, Mikel Discipline, surveillance and the'career': Employment on the Great Western Railway 1833-1914 1998 Book Chapter Foucault, On Foucault Foucault, Management, Organisational Theory, Railway, Surveillance, Career, History, Nineteenth Century
Citation Savage, Mikel 1998 Book Chapter Foucault Management Organisational Theory Railway Surveillance Career History Nineteenth Century Foucault On Foucault

"Discipline, surveillance and the'career': Employment on the Great Western Railway 1833-1914"

by Savage, Mikel (1998)

Abstract

… This paper begins by considering what light a Foucauldian perspective might shed on … 76 Foucault , Management and Organization succeeded in securing special legislation to allow their … negligent or careless, and forbade drinking, smoking, or leaving work without permission …

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Foucault, Management, Organisational Theory, Railway, Surveillance, Career, History, Nineteenth Century

Themes

Foucault, On Foucault

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