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Encyclopedia > Bossism

Bossism, in the history of the United States, is a system of political control centering about a single powerful figure (the boss) and a complex organization of lesser figures (the machine) bound together by reciprocity in promoting financial and social self-interest. Bossism was a very large issue in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. The American continent is ranging from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and including outlying areas as well. ... 1869 tobacco label featuring Boss Tweed A boss, in political science, is a person who wields de facto power over a particular political region or constituency. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


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New Bossism (2161 words)
Bossism is a set of dysfunctional behaviours and beliefs which create toxic and inefficient organisational culture.
When bossism fosters and covers-up bullying the result is a terrorised workforce which diminishes in skill and ability to the lowest common denominator.  The output of the organisation stagnates or diminishes (while costs often escalate). 
Our “New Bossism” reflects the historical origins of the term.  The “boss” is given authority through his or her insertion into a social role.
bossism — FactMonster.com (421 words)
Bossism was primarily on the local level, but the machines in very large cities soon exerted state and national influence, sometimes very powerful.
Some of the men who came to nationwide notice as connected with bossism and machines in the late 19th and 20th cent.
The original sort of bossism gradually declined with the assimilation of older immigrant stocks and reduction of new immigration, growing literacy, extension of government into the social-welfare area previously cared for by the machine, and increase in the number of jobs falling under civil-service requirements.
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