Books by Stephen B. Adams

In the 1940s, the name Henry J. Kaiser was magic. Based on the success of his shipyards, Kaiser was hailed by the national media as the force behind a "can-do" production miracle. In this book, Stephen Adams offers Kaiser's story as the first detailed case study of "government entrepreneurship".

A full-length history of the Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of the Bell System, who made new products such as telegraphs, telephones, an early computing machine, radar, and transistors. This book describes the coming of age of industrial psychology and the advent of civil rights in corporate America.