
Larry GerberAuburn University | AU · Department of History
Larry Gerber
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Ethan Schrum's book is an important contribution to the literature on the development of American research universities after World War II. He offers a useful corrective to the assumption that the increasing corporatization of American universities in recent decades is due solely to the rise of neoliberalism and to the imposition by constituencies...
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal...
Liberal: Adolf A. Berle and the Vision of an American Era. By SchwarzJordan A.. New York: The Free Press, 1987. xi + 452 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography of unpublished sources, and index. $24.95. - Volume 62 Issue 3 - Larry G. Gerber
The Brookings Institution, 1916-1952: Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society. By CritchlowDonald T.. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. xiv + 247 pp. $23.00.) - Volume 60 Issue 3 - Larry G. Gerber
From the Boardroom to the War Room: America's Corporate Liberals and FDR's Preparedness Program. By HollRichard E.. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005. x + 191 pp. Photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 1-580-46192-1. - Volume 80 Issue 3 - Larry G. Gerber
The State and Economic Knowledge: The American and British Experiences. Edited by FurnerMary O. and SuppleBarry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 477. $44.50. - Volume 51 Issue 3 - Larry G. Gerber
Reviews in American History 34.3 (2006) 372-378
The last forty years have been troubled times for American liberalism. Today, liberalism is so much on the defensive that most progressive candidates for office shy away from using the term "liberal" to describe themselves, assuming that for many Americans, "liberal" has become a dirty word. In spite...
Journal of Policy History 12.4 (2000) 541-544
Taking Stock is a collection of essays about the growth of government in the last century by some of the nation's most prominent policy analysts and historians. The authors examine five significant areas of government policy: trade and tariffs, immigration, conservation and environmentalism, civil right...
Nearly a decade ago, historian Alan Dawley proclaimed the idea
of
American exceptionalism to be dead and buried. Dawley's pronouncement
proved premature given the subsequent publication of books by Byron
Shafer and Seymour Martin Lipset reaffirming the concept, as well as
studies by Ian Tyrell, George Fredrickson, and others addressing the...
Over the last twenty years political scientists and sociologists concerned primarily with western European developments since 1945 have attempted to define corporatism as an ideal model for use in analyzing this region's political economies. Several influential American historians in recent years have also employed the concept of corporatism in exa...
In both the United States and Britain, the Great Depression generated widespread interest in the possibility of utilizing state power to foster the development of corporatist institutions to restore order and stability to economic life. However, whereas Britian made only piecemeal efforts to implement corporatist mechanisms in a few selected indust...
Editors' preface Glossary of manuscript collections Introduction 1. The management of work 2. The T room 3. Interpreting the relay test 4. Elton Mayo and the research network 5. The psychopathology of industrial life 6. The anthropology of work 7. Manufacturing the Hawthorne experiments 8. Human relations in industry 9. Human relations in the socia...
Historians and social scientists have often described modern America as a uniquely pluralist society in which a collective bargaining model of industrial relations won an early triumph over other conceptions of labor relations. Professor Gerber challenges this traditional view. Comparing American and British thinking and policies relating to labor...