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Peer reviewedPerrow, Charles – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1985
This critique of John Langton's behavioral evolutionist account of the development of bureaucracy in the 18th Century British pottery industry contends that the evolutionary explanation rests on unexamined functionalist assumptions which overlook social costs and the mediating effects of the class structure and the profit motive. (TE)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Ecology, Economic Change
