This revised text brings radical theories of organization to a wider readership, retaining the fundamentals of mainstream accounts, but examining organizations as historically constructed entities. The authors have added updated material on race, class and gender, and recent examples have been provided to combine theoretical analysis with real-life events. A wealth of practical exercises and study questions round out this comprehensive and useful text, which has been widely adopted in Canada, the United States, Australia, and the U.K. Albert Mills is Professor of Management at the Faculty of Commerce, St. Mary's University, Halifax, and Tony Simmons teaches Sociology at Athabasca University and the University of Alberta. This book is an important step in Organization Theory. Mills and Simmons are re-reading the field to give it a base in critical theory, thereby highlighting the conservative and hegemonic nature of mainstream organization theory texts.
Students find the book compelling and readable.