Dimensions of Corporate Powers Pt. 1

“America's Growing Antibusiness Mood,” Business Week (June 17, 1972), p. 100.

“Why the Public Has Lost Its Faith in Business,” Business Week (June 17, 1972), p. 116.

Hofstadter Richard , The Age of Reform (New York: Vintage Books, Random House, Inc., 1955), pp. 227, 241.

MacIver R. M. , The Web of Government (rev. ed.) (New York: The Free Press, 1965), p. 153.

Representative albeit vastly heterogeneous works examining aspects of business power are: Berle Adolf A. Means Gardner , The Modern Corporation and Private Property (MacMillan, 1937); Baran Paul Sweezy Paul , Monopoly Capital (Monthly Review, 1966); Galbraith John K. , American Capitalism (Houghton Mifflin, 1956) and The New Industrial State (Houghton Mifflin 1967); Mills C. Wright , The Power Elite (Oxford, 1959); Domhoff G. William , Who Rules America? (Prentice-Hall, 1967); Dahl Robert , Who Governs? (Yale, 1962); Hunter Lloyd , Community Power Structure (Doubleday, 1963); McConnell Grant , Private Power and American Democracy (Knopf, 1966); Kolko Gabriel , Wealth and Power in America (Praeger, 1962); Mintz Morton Cohen Jerry S. , America Inc. (Dial, 1971); Burnham James , The Managerial Revolution (Day, 1941); Barber Richard , The American Corporation: Its Power, Its Money, Its Politics (Dutton, 1970); Reich Charles , The Greening of America (Bantam, 1970); Engler Robert , The Politics of Oil (Chicago, 1967); Rose Arnold , The Power Structure (Oxford, 1967); Adams Waller Gray Horace , Monopoly in America: The Government as Promoter (MacMillan, 1955); Brandeis Louis , Other People's Money (Stokes, 1932); Nossiter Bernard , The Mythmakers (Beacon, 1964); Weinstein James , The Corporate Ideal and the Liberal State (Beacon, 1968); Josephson Matthew , The Robber Barrons (Harcourt, 1934); Miliband Ralph , The State in Capitalist Society (Basic, 1969); Melman Seymour , Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War (McGraw-Hill, 1970); and Lundberg Ferdinand , The Rich and the Super-Rich (Bantam, 1968). Recently, the Nader Group has been a frequent source of studies on corporate power; for example, Green Mark J. Moore Beverly C. Jr. Wasserstein Bruce , The Closed Enterprise System: On Anti-trust Enforcement (Grossman, 1972); Phelan James Pozen Robert , The Company State: On DuPont in Delaware (Grossman, 1972); and Nader Ralph Green Mark J. (eds.) Corporate Power in America (Grossman, 1973).

Kaufman Herbert Jones Victor , “The Mystery of Power,” Public Administration Review, V. XIV, No. 3 (Summer 1954), p. 205.

Kaysen Carl , “The Corporation: How Much Power? What Scope?” in Mason Edward S. (ed.), The Corporation in Modern Society (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959), p. 90.

Galbraith John Kenneth , The New Industrial State (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967), pp. 46–71.

Scherer F. M. , Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance (Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, Inc., 1970), p. 40.

Blair John M. , Economic Concentration: Structure, Behavior and Public Policy (New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich Inc., 1972), p. 75. Conflicting views concerning both the extent and implications of economic concentration in the United States are presented in Blair, Economic Concentration and Weston J. Fred Ornstein Stanley L. , The Impact of Large Firms on the U.S. Economy (Lexington, Mass.: Heath Lexington Company, 1973).

Williams Robin M. Jr. , American Society: A Sociological Interpretation (3rd ed.) (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1970), p. 548.

Bottomore T. B. , Classes in Modern Society (New York: Pantheon Books, 1966); Hall Richard H. , Occupations and the Social Structure (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969); and Gordon Milton , Social Class in American Society (New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1963).

Mayer Lawrence A. , “A Large Question About Large Corporations,” Fortune, LXXXV. N. 5 (May 1972), p. 187.

Epstein Edwin M. Hampton David R. , Black Americans and White Business (Encino, Calif.: Dickenson Publishing Co., Inc., 1971), Chapters 4 and 9; Sethi S. Prakash , Business Corporations and the Black Man; An Analysis of Social Conflict: The Kodak-Fight Controversy (Scranton, Pa.: Chandler Publishing Company, 1970); and Holsendolph Ernest , “Black Executives in a Nearly All-White World,” Fortune, V LXXXVI, No. 3 (Sept. 1972), p. 140.

Baltzell E. Digby , The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America (New York: Vintage Books, 1966).

Lerner Max , America as a Civilization (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957), pp. 311–317.

Kluckholn Clyde , Mirror for Man: Anthropology and Modern Life (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1949), p. 229.

Williams , American Society, pp. 438–504.

Veblen Thorstein , The Theory of Business Enterprise (New York: A Mentor Book, the New American Library, 1904, 1958), p. 181.

Roszak Theodore , The Making of a Counter-Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition (New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1969).

Chayes Abram , “The Modern Corporation and the Rule of Law,” in Mason (ed.) The Corporation in Modern Society, p. 41.

Hurst James W. , The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Law of the United States, 1780–1970 (Charlottesville: The Press of the University of of Virginia, 1970), p. 153.

15 U.S.C.A. 1222 (1956).

326 U.S. 501, 66 S.Ct. 276 (1946).

Blauner Robert , Alienation and Freedom: The Factory Worker and His Industry (Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1964), p. 32.

Blauner , Alienation and Freedom, pp. 106–107; Chinoy Ely , Automobile Workers and the American Dream (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955), pp. 62–95; and Gooding Judson , “Blue-Collar Blues on the Assembly Line,” Fortune, V. XXXII, N. 1 (July 1970), pp. 69–71 et seq.

See Whyte William H. Jr. , The Organization Man (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1956).

Gerth H. H. Mills C. Wright , From Max Weber: Essays on Sociology (Fair Lawn, N.J.: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1958), pp. 224–244.

42 U.S.C. 2000 et seq. (1964).

Riesman David , with Glazer Nathan Denny Reuel , The Lonely Crowd (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961).

Ibid., p. 21.

Reich Charles A. , The Greening of America (New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1970), p. 62.

Ward John William , “The Ideal of Individualism and the Reality of Organization,” in Cheit, The Business Establishment (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1964), pp. 37–76, especially pp. 69–70.

Roszak , The Making of a Counter-Culture, p. 206.

Ellul Jacques , The Technological Society, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1967) and Marcuse Herbert , One Dimensional Man (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964).

Sayles Leonard R. , Individualism and Big Business (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1963), p. 71.