The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World

'''Burnham, James. The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World.''' New York: The John Day Company, 1941.

Mostly written in 1940, with some last-minute notes added in 1941, so "What Is Happening" includes the Great Depression (which JB saw continuing), the betrayal of socialist ideals in Russia, the Hitler-Stalin pact, and the start of World War II. Important for G. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (q.v. under Fiction): for the division of the world into three competing superstates and (relevant here) the analysis of oligarchical collectivism with "managers" as the new ruling class.

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