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Tables of Contents for Durable Goods
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Part 1 Constructing a Convenantal Narrative
3
62
1. Why a Covenantal Theory of the Employment Relation Is Needed
3
18
2. Christian Business Ethics and the Corporation as a Moral Community
21
12
3. Durable Interdependence as the Occasion for Covenant-Building
33
10
4. A Trajectory of Covenant-Building in the Bible
43
12
5. Linking Biblical and Business History
55
10
Part 2 Conflicting Principles and Covenanting Overtures
65
38
6. The Nineteenth Century: Spiraling Conflict
65
10
7. Two Contending Moral Principles
75
8
8. From 1898 through the 1920s: Trade Agreements and Welfare Capitalism
83
8
9. Two Measures of Progress in Covenant-Building
91
12
Part 3 The Contractual Basis of Covenanting
103
46
10. Reinhold Niebuhr and the Difficulty of Prescribing Covenantal Love in Industrial Settings
103
10
11. The 1930s through the 1950s: From Hard Confrontations to Hard Bargaining
113
12
12. The Kind of Coercion Appropriate to Covenantal Relations
125
10
13. The 1960s through the 1990s: Coercive Countertactics by Management
135
14
Part 4 Costly Cooperation
149
52
14. The 1970s through the 1990s: Recruiting the Active Cooperation of Employees
149
16
15. The Nature and Costs of Cooperation
165
10
16. What Is the Good of Cooperation?
175
14
17. Covenantal Realism and the Future of Cooperation
189
12
Notes
201
26
Works Cited
227
14
Index
241