What Is Happening in the World?

The managerial revolution has to be viewed through the lens of its precise time and place. Burnham's basic thesis is that all social systems are converging in a social revolution, into what he calls manegerialism. Managers did originate in private enterprise as a direct result of the increasing complexity of industrial economies beginning in the nineteenth century. Most individual tasks of workers in 19 forty one almost always require less skill than in the past,. The most recent one was the replacement, at the end of the middle ages of feudalism by bourgeois capitalism in the west. That is, burnham explains his focus on the west by correctly noting that only what the west does matters, or at least has mattered