Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928

by Clyde W. Barrow

The modern university has been viewed by scholars as an oasis of academic autonomy that stands above or outside society and its political conflicts. Clyde Barrow challenges that vision with his conclusion that corporations and government have been the dominant social forces shaping the goals and structure of the American university.
In particular, Barrow's thesis is that a "scientific survey movement"--a broad political coalition led by business...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299124045
• ISBN13: 9780299124045
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"