Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Developing a Critical Approach to Organizational Study

Alice in Organization Land

Organizational Study and the Neglect of Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity
Why Study Organizations? Getting Interested
Outlining a Critical Approach

Chapter 2: Understanding Bureaucracies: The Age of the Organizational Giants

The Dark Side of Bureaucracy 

Living in a Bureaucratic Wonderland
What is Bureaucracy?
The Birth of Bureaucracy in Classical Organization Theory
The Bureaucratic Image: The Organization as Machine
Debating the Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of Modern Organization Theory
Standing in the Shadows: Bureaucracies and Minority Groups

Chapter 3: Calling the Shots: How Theories of Organization Relate to Managers

Speedy Taylor and Management Theorizing

The Visible Hand: Big Business and the Managerial Revolution
Reading Between the Lines: Management Theory and Class Struggle
The Periodization of Theory and the Illusion of Progress: The Case of Scientific Management
Management in Practice: What Managers Really Do

Chapter 4: Creating the Psychic Prison

Work and Identity: An Interview With Sharon Webb

Psychic Phenomena and Organizational Behaviour
Images of the Psychic Prison
Summary

Chapter 5: Sex and Organizational Analysis

Sex, Power and Abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison 

Sex and Organizational Life
Sex and Academia
Sex and Organizational Research
Issues in Sex and Organizational Research
Women's Advancement and the Struggle for Equity

Chapter 6: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Race, Ethnicity and Organization Theory

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The Politicalization of Race and Ethnic Relations
Race and Ethnic Relations in Organizational Theory
The Ethnicity Paradigm
What Does the Future Hold?

Chapter 7: Knowledge and Power in Theories of Organization

The Organizational World and the Managerial Paradigm

From Paradigm to Discourse: Understanding the Managerialist Dominance of OT and OB
Inside the Managerialist View of Reality
What is to be Done? The Challenge and Limitation of Radical Theories of Organization

Integrated Case: The Westray Mine Explosion

One Miner's Tale
A Snapshot of Mining in Pictou County
Politics and Big Guns
Rules of the Game
Training at Westray
The Union Drive
A Day in the Life
Disaster and After
The Search for Truth
Epilogue

The Westray Mine Explosion: Teaching Note

Appendix 1: Key Players
Appendix 2: Resource List
Appendix 3: Industry note 
Westray: A Critical Approach

For Your Eyes Only

A Career Decision
The Nature of Employment
The Dancers
FYEO Expansion?

Glossary of Terms
Bibliography 
Index  

About the Author

Albert J. Mills is Director of the PhD (Management) program and Professor of Management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada. His twelve books include (with T. Simmons) Reading Organization Theory: A Critical Approach, third edition (Broadview Press, 2004) and Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere: The Gendering of Airline Cultures (Palgrave, 2006).

Tony Simmons is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Global and Social Analysis at Athabasca University.

Jean C. Helms Mills is Associate Professor of Management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University. She has researched and written extensively on gender and the culture of organizations and is the author and editor of five books.

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First published in 1994, Reading Organization Theory has established itself as a pre-eminent text in its field.