Auschwitz, USA A Comparative Study in Efficiency and Human Resources Management: How the Nazis' Final Solution Annihilated the Jews in Europe and How America's 'Free Enterprise' Has Consumed Our Intelligence and Humanity in America

by Huer, Jon

• ISBN13: 9780761851875
• ISBN10: 0761851879
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-14
• Publisher: Hamilton Books

Summary

In the last hundred years of industrial advancement, a great deal of scientific progress has been made in the field of efficiency studies. Known as human resources management among those who study these things, the main quest has always been how to control human thoughts and actions so that everything works to the maximum benefit of those who control these human resources. Accordingly, the most _efficient_ system is one that controls the human resources by eliminating the human part and turning them into pure resources. In other words, their ultimate organizational goal is to transform people into things. This is the quest of all efficiency experts and human resources managers and what is commonly called organizational behavior. This book is about the two best historical examples of such _efficiently-run_ resource management.

Author Biography

Jon Huer received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1975 and is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written a dozen books of social criticism, including The Wages of sin, Tenure for Socrates, and also the Dead End, which Time Magazine's Lance Morrow called an important and often brilliant book.

Table of Contents

Welcome to Auschwitz, Usa	p. 1
Our Daily Deaths, Our Daily Bread	p. 7
Partners in Crime (Against Humanity)	p. 13
Auschwitz Dies, America Sleeps	p. 19
Efficiency a Blessing or Curse?	p. 27
In Search of perfect Death	p. 33
The Efficiency Rating, 99 vs 98nPercent	p. 41
The Auschwitz Method	p. 51
The Gas Chamber, the Most Efficient Death	p. 55
From Wannsee to the Gas Chamber	p. 59
On the Train Come the cattle	p. 63
Then Cometh the call from Hell	p. 67
To Be or Not To Be Human	p. 75
Efficiency's Progress, From Death camps to Free-Enterprise	p. 81
Mind-Control, at Auschwitz and in the U.S	p. 87
Alone at Auschwitz and in the U.S	p. 93
The Nature of Evil Explained	p. 99
The Nature of Power Explained	p. 105
Auschwitz USA: Entertainment station Terminal	p. 111
The Epilogue	p. 117
Bibliography	p. 121
Notes	p. 123
Index	p. 127
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