Business and Society: A Reader in the History, Sociology, and Ethics of Business
Combining perspectives on the interplay of two areas of primary importance to our lives--business and society--this anthology brings together a wide range of readings on the subject. Topics include the historical evolution of the business enterprise, the emergence and development of the labor force, and the impact of the international marketplace. Castro concentrates on the moral and social aspects of business, the way it affects national economy, the environment, careers, the disadvantaged,...
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Combining perspectives on the interplay of two areas of primary importance to our lives—business and society—this anthology brings together a wide range of readings on the subject. Topics include the historical evolution of the business enterprise, the emergence and development of the labor force, and the impact of the international marketplace. Castro concentrates on the moral and social aspects of business, the way it affects national economy, the environment, careers, the disadvantaged, government, and public opinion. Combining the idea that a good business education must also be a good liberal education, Castro is careful to show the connections between the way Americans have done and thought about business in the past, with the way Americans think and do business today. Considering the abundance of socioeconomic issues in everyday life, he shows that business ethics has always been an integral part of business, and that this continues to be true. He shows that the historical, social, and ethical dimensions of business are an inseparable and necessary component of business education. Chosen for their student interest and accessibility, the readings can be used for a variety of different courses covering business and society.
Introduction3IHistory9The Grocer and the Chief: A Parable11Pleasant Origins29East Side Street Vendors35Sweat Shop37Puerto Rican Obituary38Assembly-Line Americanization43The Themes of The Protestant Ethic51Economic Development in Modjokuto54The Role of Business in the United States: A Historical Survey60On European Economic Development69On Soviet Economic Development71Does Community Have a Value?74Socrates in Dallas: Managing the Facilities80IISociology87Two Tramps in Mudtime89Factory Time91The Social Structure of Managerial Work97Shooting an Elephant119The Black Masses125The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom128Race Matters134Harlem Teenagers Checkmate a Stereotype137If You Go. . .140Notes Toward the Definition of Culture141The German Ideology144The Wrong Kind of Readers: The Fall and Rise of the New Yorker147Sex, Lies, and Advertising153Learning about Education at the Workplace169IIIEthics181The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Evolution of Cooperation183The Corporation as Community191How Do They Live with Themselves?198On Commerce214The Tragedy of the Commons216The Idea of Wilderness229The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis233The Women in the Cowshed: A Review of An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution by Partha Dasgupta242Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?250Business Ethics: Knowing Ourselves260Index271
