The Power Structure of American Business

by Michael Schwartz and Beth A. Mintz

Book Overview

Mintz and Schwartz offer a fascinating tour of the corporate world. Through an intensive study of interlocking corporate directorates, they show that for the first time in American history the loan making and stock purchasing and selling powers are concentrated in the same hands: the leadership of major financial firms. Their detailed descriptions of corporate case histories include the forced ouster of Howard Hughes from TWA in the late fifties as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226531090
• ISBN13: 9780226531090
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"